- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:39:59 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Paul Grosso wrote: > Where do you get the "line delimited" idea? I came in what that preconception and always read the grammar that way. Thanks for setting me straight. > This is not true for SGML Open catalogs, and I have no reason to > read Michael's latest proposal to imply this either. > > Record ends are just part of whitespace in the catalog. Is there any good reason that we need that flexbility? Perl programming really is a lot easier when things are one per line. Not that the alternative Perl program is *difficult*, but I can see an implementation cost, and I can't see the usability benefit in allowing people to put more than one per line. Paul Prescod
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