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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:38:09 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <200210312234.RAA04637@m...>

jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes:
>As hacks go, a hack supported by an International Standard is a pretty
>strong hack.

Sure thing, but given the (not) incredible amount of respect that XML
has given the rest of its SGML heritage, DTDs in particular, I'm not
sure that leaning on ISO for support is this case is especially
convincing.


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