- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 05:57:02 -0700
- To: Richard Goerwitz <Richard_Goerwitz@Brown.EDU>, xml-editor@w3.org
At 06:36 PM 7/1/98 -0400, Richard Goerwitz wrote: >This would seem to make it illegal to do some seemingly very natural >things like: > > <!ENTITY % e SYSTEM "external.data"> > >where external.data contains a token like "EMPTY" or "CDATA". Yes. >Is this what you intended? Yes. The reason is that any external entity, in principle, should have the capability of beginning with a text declaration to allow for variant encodings - a necessity for global operations. You couldn't do this and get away with <!ENTITY % e SYSTEM "external.data"> <!ELEMENT E (%e;)> -Tim
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