Re: Substitution group chains - which can be abstract?

Dan Vint <dvint@mindspring.com> writes:

> I see what you are trying to do, I'm thinking you can't get there from here.

Um, yes he can.  The substitution group mechanism supports precisely
the design pattern Xan demonstrated.  Substitution groups were
designed to reconstruct the common use of parameter entities to
reflect a hierarchical structuring of the element types in an SGML
document type, in which we quite often see a hierarchy of some depth
before we get to actual elements.  See _Developing SGML DTDs_, by Eve
Maler and Jeanne El Andaloussi.

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