Re: Marked Sections from Henry S. Thompson on 1996-09-12 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from September 1996)

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 01:46:17 BST
To: tbray@textuality.com
Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <7794.9609120046@scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

Tim Bray writes 
>  At 06:48 PM 9/10/96 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote:
>  
>  >10.4
>  >Marked sections are useful in DTDs (a la HTML and TEI) but it might be valid
>  >to ban them within transmitted document instances conforming to XML. (XML
>  >should really be for the transmission of version independent documents.
>  >RCDATA should have its entities resolved before tranmission and with CDATA
>  >should have any embedded markup delimiters replaced by character references.)
>  
>  There's been no discussion of this, and early voting results do not show a
>  trend.  Marked sections clearly complicate parser construction, and I don't
>  think they are useful enough to make up for this and get into XML.
>  

Seconded.


ht

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