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At 11:42 10/11/2001 -0500, Jonathan Borden wrote: > Mike, > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@m...] > > > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 11:00 AM > > > To: Champion, Mike; xml-dev@l... > > > Subject: Re: So maybe ID isn't a problem after all. > > > > > > > > so what am I missing? > > > > Maybe nothing, except my wistful hope that we really can do this kind of > > thing with WF XML syntax rather than DTD syntax someday... > >I know what you are getting at, but want to remind people that "well-formed >XML" _includes_ the internal DTD subset and hence all of this can be done >in-band. Yes it can be expressed in WF XML, but internal subset stuff disappears to Tumbolia in XML processing chain/workflows. Four alternatives I see: Don't use internal subsets Use internal subsets and live with the fact they they don't survive processing pipelines Make the internal subsets round-trip by using a sufficiently rich and complex infoset. Write monolithic XML processing programs regards, Sean
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