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At 12:58 PM 10/19/2003 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >There are substantial communities - remarkably unrepresented here on >xml-dev - who have been complaining vociferously because neither W3C XML >Schemas nor RelaxNG shows any sign of addressing the entity problem, and >they claim they really need them, mostly for this problem of naming >characters. If nothing else, +names is a thought experiment which should >clarify these peoples' issues. So far we've heard a few voices saying >"this might be useful" and a few saying "This is an abomination". So far >we haven't really heard very much from the constituencies whose issues >this is designed to address. I'm not sure why you're writing off xml-dev's value so quickly. A lot of people here, myself included, deal with these issues every time we work with XML. So whose input do you actually value? >If this silence continues, the conclusion will be obvious. And what conclusion would that be? Lack of interest?
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