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Rick Jelliffe wrote: > XInclude is no replacement for entity referneces in attribute values or > in text-only data content. Neither does it adequately substitute for > the ISO public entity sets for special characters: HTML advocates have > made it quite clear during the XHTML discussions that the idea that > entity references will not go away quickly. (XInclude is a bad idea, if > considered alone, because it will fragment XML into XML+XInclude and > XML: it would be better to bundle it as part of namespaces and XBase.) > What we really need is the next version of XML ( Infoset + XML 1.0 - DTDs + Namespaces + XBase/XInclude + XML Schemas ). > A DTD is carted around with a document when the document is considered > by its originater to have some life. The DTD represents constraints on > the future of the document not just its present. <snip/> > > XML Schemas may even lead to a resurgence of the use of DTDs: this is > because once schema software is in place as a layer, the particular > syntax becomes less important. (Of course, where there are features that > cannot be supported, that is different. No magic.) > What? How? You lost me... -aaron
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