- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:36:39 +0000
- To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 16:50 23/10/96 -0400, Gavin Nicol wrote: >As I said earlier, SDATA, or some form of entity typing mechanism, >seems to me to be crucial to building a good distributed >character/glyph/font registry/resolution mechnism. I wish to be >able to do something like: > > <!ENTITY foo SDATA "[unicode=XXX glyphid=XXXX charid=XXXX]" > > >and to be able to resolve/process that on my local system. Why can't you build your mechanism using normal elements <!ENTITY foo '<glyph unicode="XXX" glyphid="XXXX" charid="XXXX"/>'> ? I don't find the argument that "my DTD may not have a glyph element" very convincing: most SGML DTDs are certainly going to need modifying to support XML. James
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