Re: Parameter entities vs. GI name groups

>My willingness to make the the trade-off is because despite really a lot
>of work by myself and (even more) Michael, the PE section of the XML-lang
>spec is blatantly hideous compared to the rest of it.  It is hard to
>explain, hard to understand, and hard to implement.  It needs a supporting
>section in an appendix to try to "explain" it (always a bad sign). It is a 
>psychological barrier to the acceptance of descriptive markup.

PE's are actually fairly easy to implement, but the current spec.
certainly is confusing. I think that if we can simplify the spec
a little (or at least clarify it), then all will be well.

Received on Monday, 23 June 1997 09:50:10 UTC