• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
• To: Pete Cordell <petexmldev@c...>
• Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:47:41 -0400

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 20:27 +0100, Pete Cordell wrote:
> Uche's post about MicroXML reminded me...
> 
> Did we ever discuss the option of allowing & not followed by #, amp;, lt;, 
> gt;, quot; or apos; to be considered simply as an & so you could do AT&T? 
> This would make manually writing MicroXML a lot easier!

The first SGML document I ever worked on was about R&D at AT&T and it
took me ages to work out why it didn't parse :-)

I don't think banning é would fly - it's part of MathML and HTML.

It's possible that having the HTML + ISO + MathML entity sets hardwired
into Web browsers and explicitly allowing programs to handle undeclared
entities in such a way would get somewhere.

Liam

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• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: MicroXML and &
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
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    • From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
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    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>

• References:
  • "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basic principles of MicroXML"
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • MicroXML and &
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>