Re: Character-escape (MSSCHAR) in HTML?

 |
 |
 |There are some of optional features in SGML that are not widely implemented,
 |or that may cause problems if implemented.
 |
 |I'm nervous about MSSCHAR for a number of reasons.  The behaviour of
 |an entity ending in MSSCHAR seems to me to be undefined, for example.
 |
 |At the IETF meetings in Toront, the phrase `ISO syndrome' was bandied
 |about for standards ratified before they are implemented; if it was done
 |again, SGML would be different.
 |
 |I'm afraid I'd say don't use MSSCHAR.
 |
 |You can do most of what you want with SDATA entities anyway, e.g. instead
 |of \<P> you can write &lt;P>.  Although this looks uglier at first sight,
 |editors (e.g. our HoTMetaL!) can display this as <P>.
 |
 |Also, I have often seen <\P> from PC users.  This is currently an error;
 |your proposal would make it legal -- the < is not followed by a NAMECHAR,
 |so it would be a literal < followd by an escaped P followed by a >.
 |
 |Lee
 |
 |-- 
 |Liam Quin, Manager of Contracting, SoftQuad Inc +1 416 239 4801 lee@sq.com
 |HexSweeper NeWS game;OPEN LOOK+XView+mf-fonts FAQs;lq-text unix text retrieval
 |SoftQuad HoTMetaL: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:Web/html/hotmetal, and also doc.ic.ac.uk:
 |packages/WWW/ncsa/..., gatekeeper.dec.com:net/infosys/Mosaic/contrib/SoftQuad/
 |


-- 
___________________________________________________________________________
####[ Bert Bos                     ]####[ Alfa-informatica,           ]####
####[ <bert@let.rug.nl>            ]####[ Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ]####
####[ http://www.let.rug.nl/~bert/ ]####[ Postbus 716                 ]####
####[                              ]####[ NL-9700 AS GRONINGEN        ]####
####[______________________________]####[_____________________________]####

Received on Monday, 12 September 1994 18:31:52 UTC