- From: Charles F. Goldfarb <Charles@SGMLsource.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:19:17 GMT
- To: Michael Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU>
- Cc: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, 17 Oct 96 13:21:38 CDT, Michael Sperberg-McQueen
<U35395@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU> wrote:
>On 23 October 1996, the ERB will vote to decide the following
>question. A straw poll indicates the ERB is leaning to eliminating
>both inclusion and exclusion exceptions.
>
>C.7 Should XML prohibit the use of inclusion and exclusion exceptions
>in element declarations? (11.2.4, 11.2.5)?
Yes. SGML DTDs should be really, really simple.
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