- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 23:53:07 EDT
- To: Charles@sgmlsource.com, papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> 1. No need to access a DTD to determine if an element is mixed content.
> 2. All REs and RSs are ignored -- full stop! (See, I'm internationalized :-)
> 3. Really easy parsing.
> 4. Much simpler to explain.
Will the obvious \" work as expected?
Does "string concatenation" work?
<P>
"this is line one "
"this is line two "
"this is line three"
</P>
if so, it can probably be made to fly.
If not, I think it looks odd enough that you might as well but the
bullet and use RTF or TeX syntax,
\p{this is line one
this is line two
this is line three}
with no hint of backwards compatibility.
Then there is no problem.
But it all seems like overkill to me.
If you could have a top-level inclusion for #PCDATA,
we would always be in mixed content, and the collapse-as-per-mixed-content
rules would work fine in both SGML and XML.
So how about adding the possibility of +(#PCDATA) in SGML?
Lee
Received on Monday, 30 September 1996 23:53:39 UTC