• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 10:38:29 -0800
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Rick Jelliffe wrote:

> Why should a user have to distinguish between "what elements can I use?"
> and "what standard entities can I use?".

Wrong question I think.  In XML you can use *all* the characters 
provided by Unicode; the issue here is how to give them mnemonics. -Tim

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