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Re: human interaction with XML

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: human interaction with XML
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:39:29 -0700
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Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> Personally, I'm going to spend what time I can this summer focused on
> the many problems of entities, 

The construction of the 'ongoing' software was on a microscopic scale 
compared to some of the stuff Simon's talking about, but I can testify 
that entities were the only real irritant at the XML level.  I ended up 
having a good old-fashioned DTD with a bunch of entity declarations that 
gets auto-magically prepended to the articles before they get fed into 
the publishing system's maw.

For publishing-oriented apps of XML, we're nowhere near being able to do 
away with entities, and the state of the art for handling them is not 
very advanced.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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