- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:25:18 GMT
- To: U35395@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>* should XML require all entities to be synchronous with the document's
>logical structure?
Yes.
>* if XML makes DTDs optional and allows partial DTDs, what must or may a
>parser do when it encounters references to undeclared entities (9.4)?
>Should XML declare any set of entities automatically?
Step 1. Look for the entities in a catalog by name:
&bar; --> ENTITY "bar" "http://www.ebt.com/bar.sgml"
Step 2. Look in a position relative to the document instance for
a file of the same name with an .sgml or .sgm or no extension
>* if XML uses ISO 10646, should there be a special form of character
>reference using hexadecimal, not decimal, numbers, since most references
>to ISO 10646 and Unicode use hex, not decimal (9.5)?
Use Rick's optimised form: &UXXXXXXXX;
Received on Tuesday, 24 September 1996 10:26:26 UTC