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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

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• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:26:57 +1100
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> Mike Champion scripsit:
> 
> > It would seem to me that ALL the "syntax sugar preprocessing" --
> > entity resolution and substitution, CDATA section processing, attribute
> > default value insertion, maybe XInclude resolution -- belongs 
> > in some preprocessor step.
 
That is a matter of layering, but not of management: there needs to be
a way of naming and bundling pre- and post-parse constraints adopted.  

Why should a user have to distinguish between "what elements can I use?"
and "what standard entities can I use?".

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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