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• Subject: Re: An unclear point with W3C XML 1.0 Specification
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:22:31 -0800
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On Jan 5, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Collin Hsu wrote:

> external identifiers (SystemLiteral). ___Note that a SystemLiteral can 
> be
> parsed without scanning for markup.___
>
> }}
>
>
> I wonder what the last sentence really wants to say.

Hmm... I wondered when that entered the spec.  I have on my hard disk a 
file called xml.xml which is the original XML specification, from which 
the HTML for the original XML 1.0 was generated (mind you, it's 
migrated through a few laptops between 1996 and now); so I went and 
looked in there, and yep, it's in there.

What it's saying is true, e.g.

<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "http://example.com/x.xml?foo=1&bar=2">
<foo/>

is well-formed.

But it certainly could have been expressed better.  Sigh. -Tim

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