- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:53:09 -0400
- To: W3C-SGML-WG@w3.org
A last _plea_ for their inclusion. Using strings to identify system dependent content (we could even require that SDATA always be a glyph, though I think that is excessive) is far better than using numerical codes. Let's not make any prescription about the use of square brackets in general entities, for pity's sake. SDATA will make a lot of things easier, and it's _easy_ to implement and explain. We need no convention for display of SDATA -- We could declare SDATA strings with "[]" to always be glyph identifications: only those in ISO standards are guaranteed to be available to all XML processing systems. -- David Later, we could even define a protocol (or application convention) to ask a server to resolve one of its SDATA strings to whatever is appropriate. RE delenda est. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________ http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/services_map_main.html
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