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- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:50:47 +0200
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Oh. Thanks. Would it be possible to put something in XML Schema now that will let it provide entities for XML 1.1 whenever that's released? Or, the Schema processor could output a DTD containing just entities before it parses the XML. Or is this not really a problem with XML Schema? Jeffrey Yasskin On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:19, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: > Right. Entities are a feature of XML 1.0. If you read the XML 1.0 > specification carefully, you'll see that it provides no means for > replacing DTDs as the means for defining entities. Therefore, there was > nothing that the XML schema workgroup could have done in its own language > to define an entity, except perhaps to define a mechanism that generated a > DTD. This is an aspect of XML that is currently not accessible. To fix > this, XML 1.0 in itself would have to be changed. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 > IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 > One Rogers Street > Cambridge, MA 02142 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >
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