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Re: Documents within documents

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• Subject: Re: Documents within documents
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 12:38:15 +0000
• In-reply-to: <F131djvFfXTEjad6B40000112a9@h...>

At 19:51 07/02/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>I concur.
>Let me clarify that I have never been a DTD-hater. I wish more XML 
>Software did a better job of supporting or making full use of DTDs.
>
>But the problem I mentioned, how they inhibit embedding one doc in 
>another, is pretty damning.

Note that it is not DOCTYPE that inhibits this - the problem is the 
non-nesting "]]>". Internal document
type declaration subsets are an example of the problem but so too are the 
much more commonplace
CDATA sections.

Sean

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