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Re: canonicalization

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• Subject: Re: canonicalization
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:26:42 +1100
• References: <1015032338.3309.3.camel@l...> <p04330103b8a7fd271d04@[192.168.254.4]> <1015178176.5268.43.camel@l...> <p04330104b8a8106aa395@[192.168.254.4]> <1015193078.3350.61.camel@l...> <p04330107b8a85bc15730@[192.168.254.4]> <1015201142.3309.108.camel@l...> <3C82B747.5020609@t...> <20020304025635.C18835@r...> <3C832B1E.2D941BB6@a...> <20020304043305.D18835@r...> <3C840230.9E8C239C@a...> <p04330100b8a9ebf0c405@[192.168.254.4]>

From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
 
> 2. XInclude can use XPointers to select only part of a remote 
> document. Entities can't.

A SYSTEM identifier in an entity declaration can be any URI. 
All that would be needed was a version of XML to say "interpret
XPointers".

> 3. XInclude can include unparsed text, useful for examples in XML 
> books and such. Entities can only refer to XML.

This was a feature of SGML excluded from XML. It could be reintroduced
merely by adding the CDATA keyword on entity declarations.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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