- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:14:24 +0200
- To: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:39 AM, David Sheets <kosmo.zb@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote: >> Specifically, I'd like for there to be a document from the TAG somewhere >> stating that: I support Mike's proposal (though see below for an exception). > How should vocabulary specifications exchange named character references? They shouldn't. As a special exception, the spec 2nd edition of XML Entity Definitions for Characters (http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007doc/Overview.html) could be allowed to proceed, since browsers are already required to special-case some public ids so that they map to a (non-validation) DTD that defines those entities. Note that XML Entity Definitions for Characters doesn't use DTDs for validation and, therefore, is orthogonal to the anti-DTD rationale that Mike stated. There potentially exists a different anti-DTD rationale against entity definitions, but, as noted, this particular list of entity definitions is, for better or worse, already a requirement in practice. (Maybe in the future we'll get XML5/XML-ER that makes these character names built-in.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/
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