- From: Bill Smith <bill.smith@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
James Clark wrote: > I just counted the number of lines of code in the part of SP that handles > external entities; I included just the URL and OSFILE storage mangers, and > just the UTF-8 and Unicode encodings. It was more than 5000 lines. I don't > see how we can possibly meet our goals for ease of implementation if this > part of XML has this level of complexity. > > Don't get me wrong: I love FPIs and FSIs. But I strongly believe this whole > XML exercise is going to be a total waste of time unless we exercise extreme > self-restraint in the features we put in XML, especially in version 1.0. In my opinion, this is an especially strong argument against FPIs, FSIs, and external entities - in XML 1.0. They can be added in a subsequent version.
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