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Re: A heavier-weight proposal for character entitydefinition

• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@c...>
• Subject: Re: A heavier-weight proposal for character entitydefinition
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 06 Feb 2002 11:08:48 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 05:56, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> I posted this first in May of 2001.  I think it's worth looking at a
> somewhat more heavy-weight approach to defining character entities,
> since maintaining and distributing entity libraries is going to be an
> important part of the use of XML going forward if we get this right.
> So I'd like to at least look at what a real XML document type for
> character entity definition might look like.  Here's one attempt.
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <characters xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/05/Character"
>             xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <xhtml:p>A sample of proposed character entity definition file format</xhtml:p>
>  <character name="copyright" code="169"/>
>  <character name="registered" code="174">
>   <xhtml:p>Individual characters can <xhtml:em>also</xhtml:em> have
>            documentation</xhtml:p>
>  </character>
>  <character name="eacute" code="xC9"/>
>  <character name="bullet" code="x2022"
>             source="http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf"/>
> </characters>

Now that I can see the instance, this doesn't look that different from
what Ents is using for configuration:
http://simonstl.com/projects/ents/HTMLrules.xml

The names are different, and I hadn't decided where to put source info -
a containing element is what I'm leaning toward - but we're not that far
apart.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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• References:
  • Re: Getting rid of entities (was: misprocessing namespaces)
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
  • Re: Getting rid of entities (was: misprocessing namespaces)
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
  • A heavier-weight proposal for character entity definition
    • From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
  • Re: A heavier-weight proposal for character entity definition
    • From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)

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