• From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@i...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:37:03 +0200

On Jan 4, 2012 12:25 PM, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@i...> wrote:
>
> Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@i...> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...> wrote:
> >> 2) Clearer story on how to use the ISO/MathML entity sets along with XML
> >> Schemas, or with no schemas. I often hear "XML Schemas does not support
> >> entities, so I cannot use entities with XML Schemas" or vice versa.
> >> Preferably, build the default mappings of the entities into XML.
> >
> > Adding entities to XML without DTDs would break the compatibility of
> > new documents with old parsers. I think entities alone are not worth
> > such a discontinuity.
>
> Unless you mean "without DOCTYPEs", isn't this exactly what the
> current HTML 5 spec [1] does?

The streams that the HTML5 entity resolver resolves the public ids to are DTDs.