• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 13:25:24 -0400

I would like to sketch an improved replacement for the lost SGML INCLUDE
and IGNORE marked sections.  XML rightly ditched them in document
instances, though retaining them in DTDs; they are ugly syntactically,
inflexible, and don't adapt well to complex conditions.  "XCond" is my
tentative replacement for them.

For a preliminary draft, see
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XCond-draft-19980602.html .

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@c...
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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