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RE: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: "Ann Navarro" <ann@w...>,"John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:11:26 -0800
• Cc: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>,"David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>,<jcowan@r...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Navarro [mailto:ann@w...] 
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 2:48 PM
> To: John Cowan
> Cc: Tim Bray; David Carlisle; jcowan@r...; 
> xml-dev@l...
> 
> You can't define 
> entities in XML Schema (except by using a DTD, which doesn't 
> count, IMO). Let's fix that, and it would work just as 
> entities defined in DTDs would. Problem solved for XHTML, and 
> any other language development effort.

It is already a source of much consternation that XSD is not a single
focused spec but instead dabbles poorly in co-occurence constraints then
carries around infoset augmentations like default values. I'd hate to
see it become an even more bloated, jack-of-all-trades spec by having it
support sopmething similar to entities. 


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