- From: C M Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 17:52:45 -0500
- To: Syd_Bauman@Brown.edu
- CC: xml-editor@w3.org, Richard_Goerwitz@Brown.edu, cmsmcq@acm.org
>Date: Fri, 21 May 99 17:04:45 EDT >From: Syd Bauman <SYD@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU> >I can not find any semantics for the terminal "ANY" as used in >production 46 "contentspec". I presume it means the same as in ISO >8879: See the constraint Element Valid, after production 39 (element). >Since the percent sign is not allowed in an entity declaration, it >would be nice if &percent; were one of the magic entities that XML >processors must recognize whether declared or not. I realize that it >isn't the same level of requirement as the others (which are needed >to escape markup that cannot appear in content, whereas percent sign >is only prohibited in a certain context in the DTD -- and it is >reasonable to assume that if you go to the trouble of learning how to >write a DTD it's no big deal to learn to use % or whatever), >but nonetheless I think it's a good idea. (Of course, I'd also like >to see =, and perhaps even [ and ] as magic entities, >too. :-) Noted. It's unlikely that the set of magic entities will change anytime soon, but perhaps in XML 1.1 ... -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
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