- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:13:45 -0400
- To: vdv@dyomedea.com
- Cc: Stefano.Galdo@valtech.co.uk, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Eric van der List writes: >> Entities just do not translate into W3C XML Schema! You may wonder why. It's a long, subtle discussion, but I think it's fair to say that the rough answer is: XML 1.0 is not extensible in this respect. It does not anticipate plugging in mechanisms other than DTD for defining entities or expressing the effect of such new mechanisms on well-formedness. With regrets on the part of many schema WG members, we decided that changing XML 1.0 was beyond our mandate, and that the alternatives were effectively kludges. I don't officially speak for the WG, but I think that's a pretty fair summary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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