Re: questions about entities and entity declarations

At 08:11 AM 24/9/96 +0100, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>At 07:36 PM 9/23/96 CDT, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote:

>>* Should XML remove SGML's prohibition on ENTITY attributes for
>>notations (11.4.1)?
>
>Do you mean that XML should *allow* ENTITY attributes for notations (also,
>IDREF(S) and NOTATION)?  I would say yes, because it only affects the DTD
>and it's something that will almost certainly be in the revised SGML.

11.4.1 refers to data entities, which are only associated with Entity
declarations. It does not make sense to allow an entity to reference another
entity, either directly or via an ID. As the notation of the entity has to
be specified after the NDATA keyword it does not make sense to have a
possibly conflicting notation attribute.
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Received on Tuesday, 24 September 1996 04:23:54 UTC