- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:44:51 +0900 (JST)
- To: bthomson@europe.ea.com, CMorgan@europe.ea.com
- Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org
"Thomson, Brian" <bthomson@europe.ea.com> wrote: > At the risk of continuing a thread on a non-issue... :-) So why have a > reference to the entity on a human readable web page? Having a link doesn't always mean that a linked resource is human readable. For example, in the second paragraph of Appendix A, there is a link to a zip file, but it's not intended to be rendered on browsers. Those links in Appendix A make it easier for readers to get relevant DTDs and entity sets. Also, "4.1.4. Unrecognized Subtypes" of RFC 2046 [2] says: Unrecognized subtypes of "text" should be treated as subtype "plain" as long as the MIME implementation knows how to handle the charset. So even if a browser doesn't understand 'text/xml-external-parsed-entity', that browser should treat it as 'text/plain' and should be able to display it (if user wants to do so). Having said that, upcoming XHTML 1.0 Second Edition would include those DTDs and entity sets in the spec, for readers' convenience. [2] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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