- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 12:00:09 EDT
- To: jjc@jclark.com, tbray@textuality.com
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> At 23:57 23/10/96 +0000, Tim Bray wrote: > >1. external text entities are a basic necessity for authoring [...] James wrote: > I would like to point that at least one person on the ERB (me) passionately > believes that this viewpoint is totally misguided. Well, I'm not on the ERB, but I do not believe that external text entities are essential for authoring. That there are people who rely on them shows how poor our SGML tools are right now, I suppose. A system like Astoria is (at least in principle -- I haven't used Astoria) far better for authoring. Or should be. You can do text entities server-side if you like using a short perl script. Some web servers do this already, with either procesing instructions or coments -- <!--#include /some/file--> works in the Apache and (I think) NCSA servers today. Lee
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