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Ann Navarro wrote: > >We have come out in *support* of uniform entity name/character mappings > >across all standards. We don't think that it's in our charter to do this > >ourselves. > > That's not what I'm referring to. You may think uniform names are good, but > I'm hearing/reading that you think it's perfectly acceptable to force > average document authors to write internal DTD subsets to be able to write > "Pepsi ™". You could always use an external subset. Of course there's probably some niggling technical issue that would make that unworkable; the document would be "invalid" unless the external subset also contained a suitable collection of <!ELEMENT...> and <!ATTLIST...> declarations, which will cause validating parsers to reject it. Non-validating parsers of course won't read the external subset. [ It's always bothered me that XML parsers are either "validating" or "non-validating". This should really be "DTD-aware" (with validation as an extra optional feature) and "DTD-unaware". Maybe this can be changed in XML 1.1, not that I would hold my breath. ] This trick *would* work in SGML though: with IMPLYDEF ELEMENT YES ATTRIBUTE YES, the external subset can consist solely of <!ENTITY ...> declarations. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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