Re: XML Entity Manager

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
• Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:19:37 -0400
• To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960921161937.00c3f984@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

At 06:39 AM 9/21/96 +0000, Tim Bray wrote:
>I am surprised that nobody has remarked on the woeful absence of discussion
>of the entity management problem both in our goals document and here on
>the list.  So... let me as usual advance the minimalist position:
>
>XML offers only 4 kinds of external entities: the cross-product of 
>
>(PUBLIC or SYSTEM) x (PCDATA or NDATA)

What about text entities vs. external text entities, vs. subdocument
entities vs. some other fragment technology?

Eliot Kimber has a vote in favour of subdocument entities at
http://www.sil.org/sgml/kimber-subdoc.html .

 Paul Prescod

Received on Saturday, 21 September 1996 12:24:31 UTC