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Re: Alternative "character entity" proposal

• To: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Subject: Re: Alternative "character entity" proposal
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:01:06 -0400
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Richard Tobin scripsit:

> >Is scoping really necessary?
> 
> Yes, it's the main reason that the existing DTD mechanism is
> inadequate.

I think the main reasons (they work in concert) that the DTD mechanism is
inadequate are:

1) external DTDs are convenient, but there's no guarantee they'll be
   processed;

2) internal DTDs are inconvenient, and XSLT provides no way to regenerate
   them after a transformation.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
Original line from _The Warrior's Apprentice_ by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."

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