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David Megginson wrote: >This doesn't really address the point, though. If notations and data >attributes are optional, then either support for embedding non-XML >objects is also optional, or notations and data attributes are not the >preferred way of embedding non-XML objects. If they are not the >preferred way (you probably rightly suggest that embedded URLs and >MIME/HTTP will be more popular), then why does the spec include them >at all, and cause so much unnecessary confusion among non-SGML people? I wonder about this as well. The only explanation I have heard is that people should be forced to include a list of external entities in the document prolog, since they will regret it 20 years down the road if they don't. I must say, this sounds I tad prescriptive to me... Matthew xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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