- From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 15:23:31 CDT
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:52:21 -0400 James Clark said: >At 15:15 24/10/96 -0400, Gavin Nicol wrote: >>Right. Can't we treat external entities as a special case of that >>given the synchronous structure of them? > >I think you may be right. > >An XML parser intended for Web browsers wouldn't resolve an external >text entity immediately itself but rather would return a transclude >event to the application and keep going. This would make it hard for >a Web browser to do validation, but that may not be a problem. > >It would be easier to make this work if we disallowed references to >external text entities in attribute values, but hopefully people can >live without those. Er, I'm sorry if I'm missing something, but doesn't clause 7.9.4.2 (p. 335 of Handbook) restrict ENTITY/ENTITIES attributes to data and SUBDOC entities? I.e. isn't your conditional already met? (I think we reaffirmed that XML will work the same way, on question C.3 the other day.) I hope so, because anything that would make this work more easily while allowing external text entities is a good thing in my book. -Michael Sperberg-McQueen
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