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>Show me one product that complies fully with the XML specification and >I'll show you one that supports €. I fully understand that >€ will work on platform-dependent systems like broken HTML >browsers. But this is the XML developers' list, and I don't want >anyone without your history of experience to get confused by your >unqualified statement. My statement was very much qualified, hence your justifiable complaint about my suggesting platform dependent solutions. > >For the same reason, I wince whenever anyone mentions CONREF, SDATA, >or minimization on this list. I gave a talk last April to the SGML >Forum of New York on what XML wasn't, from an SGML point of view. >Most of the people in the room were happy. There was one poor fellow >who was new to SGML, who was terrified by how complex XML seemed. If >we can keep discussions to what XML *is*, or at least carefully >qualify any statements about what it isn't, and only use those for >contrast, there will be much less danger of confusion for newcomers. Agreed, I apologise for muddying the waters unnecessarily. Lets stick to <!ENTITY euro "ac;"> even if this hasn't yet been formally approved by the relevant ISO committee as the code point for the Euro (developers be warned) Martin Bryan xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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