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RE: Ambiguity in XML spec

• From: "Brown, Bryan" <bryanb@u...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 12:25:18 -0700

> "Brown, Bryan" wrote:
> 
> > > > Or
> > > > [[83] NotationDecl ::= '<!NOTATION' S Name S (ExternalID |
> > > PublicID )
> > > > [84] PublicID ::= 'PUBLICID' S PubicLiteral
> > >
> > > Eh?  That is what it does say.
> > 
> > No i changed the string in [84] to be 'PUBLICID' then when 
> parsing if you
> > see PUBLICID you know it is a public id without a 
> systemLiteral, if you see
> > 'PUBLIC'then you know it is publicId followed by a system literal.
> > I don't think this is a good solution but it does remove 
> the ambiguity.
> 
> At the expense of not being XML (or SGML either).
> 

Ok, so it is a bad suggestion, but how about the other ?

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