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Arjun Ray wrote:
> PEs need to die. Killing them off, however, needs additions to DTD syntax
> to cover the situations for which to date PEs have been used as kludges.
The only reason I'd have for keeping them is to allow a DTD to be broken into
separate files. As long as that was catered for somehow, I'd be happy to see them
die.
I could do without the ability to group element and attribute declarations too -
like PEs, I think they make DTDs more difficult to read, particularly if you're
looking for a particular element declaration. I'd rather search for the string
"<!ELEMENT foo" than sift through all the places that foo gets mentioned in the
DTD.
Terseness in DTD redesign is of minimal importance...;-)
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