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Re: Notations and unparsed entities in the wild

• To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Subject: Re: Notations and unparsed entities in the wild
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:42:41 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200111061841.SAA19500@p...>
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At 6:41 PM +0000 11/6/01, David Carlisle wrote:

>I just fired up google to see if I could find an example of these being
>used and the first page I looked at turned out to be written by you!
>
>
>http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200107/msg00042.html
>
>

That's embarrassing, but it does seem that Docbook XML 4.1.2 does use 
notations for two purposes:

1. To identify preformatted elements in which white space should be 
preserved using the linespecific notation

2. To identify the targets of olink elements

As near as I can tell it does not use notations to identify the types 
of graphic elements such as imagedata. Although these elements have 
format attributes, those attributes have an enumerated type, not a 
NOTATION type.

Docbook does not appear to use unparsed entities.


>TEI, there's
>http://www.tei-c.org/TEI/Guidelines/ref/WSDXFIG.htm (that's the sgml
>version, but I think the xml one's the same, couldn't see a link off
>hand)
>

That does seem to use both unparsed entities and notations.
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