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Correction: Re: A little wish for short end tags

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 10:52:08 -0400

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> You would add a single question mark to the EBNF as opposed
> to hundreds of percent signs for parameter entities. 

Correction: I forgot that the final draft uses a much more elegant rule
for parameter entities. They are still much more complicated to understand
and use than short end-tags, but there is not as much spec-space dedicated
to them as there once was.

Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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