- From: Bert Bos <bert@let.rug.nl>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 16:01:53 +0200 (METDST)
- To: www-html@www0.cern.ch (* WWW/HTML discussion list )
If I read the SGML standard correctly, it should be possible to define an escape character that turns any character into data. SGML calls it an MSSCHAR (markup-scan-suppress character). If we add, e.g., BSLASH MSSCHAR 92 to the SYNTAX/FUNCTION section of the SGML declaration, we could write thinks like <P>A paragraph starts with a \<P> tag. instead of <P>A paragraph starts with a <P> tag. As long as HTML or SGML editors are not in widespread use, this could help authors somewhat. Other examples are: <LI LABEL="\"">is called double quote. the entity \&folder; looks like &folder; Unfortunately, sgmls can't handle this... Bert -- ___________________________________________________________________________ ####[ Bert Bos ]####[ Alfa-informatica, ]#### ####[ <bert@let.rug.nl> ]####[ Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ]#### ####[ http://www.let.rug.nl/~bert/ ]####[ Postbus 716 ]#### ####[ ]####[ NL-9700 AS GRONINGEN ]#### ####[______________________________]####[_____________________________]####
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