- From: James David Mason <masonjd@ornl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:59:20 -0400
- To: Michael Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
- Cc: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 01:32 PM 10/17/96 CDT, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: >On 23 October 1996, the ERB will vote to decide the following >question. A straw poll indicates the question needs further >discussion in the work group. Possible positions are to remove >8879's restriction (at the cost of more complex XML-to-SGML >DTD translation), to retain it, to eliminate enumerated values >entirely in the hope that WG8 will relax the restriction, or >to retain the restriction but make it a non-reportable error. > >C.14 Should XML allow more than one enumerated type (name-group >declared value) to contain the same possible value (11.3.3)? > > > I always thought this was a dumb restriction in SGML; I wasn't fond of the particular bit of minimization it was needed for, either. Let's ditch it here and see whether WG8 can do likewise. Jim Mason Dr. James D. Mason (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 Convenor) Lockheed Martin Energy Systems Information Management Services SGML Systems Development 1060 Commerce Park, M.S. 6480 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6480 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 423 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 423 574-0004 Network: masonjd@ornl.gov
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