- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 03:37:43 +1000
- To: "Gavin Nicol" <gtn@eps.inso.com>, <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
<ask-dave> I think Dave Peterson had ideas for a while for upgrading the parameter entity/marked section mechanism to add Boolean conditions (more like #defines), so this is not a particularly radical idea. </> <ironic> Since XML is busy trying to throw away both PEs and marked sections, it is ironic to then suddenly be wanting them back, in effect. I take it as another example of my belief that many of the gripes people have with SGML is that, apart from entities and elements, many constructs are currently incompletely defined (e.g. PIFLE) to meet their potential. </> <related-issue> I have also wondered whether there should be a "preprocessing instruction", namely another kind of delimiter targetted at servers. I would suggest it use cpp delimiters: PPIO "&#RS;#" PPIC "&#RE" This would take over the server-side inclusion facility. </> Rick Jelliffe
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