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At 5:21 PM -0700 5/3/97, Terry Allen wrote: >Thanks >to Norbert Mikula for pointing out that the %local.foo.foo; parameter >entities, which are defined with the content "", are illegal per >XML-lang production 46. The sole difference between XDB 0.3 and >XDB 0.2 (which I've removed) is the deletion of these parameter >entities and an updated copyright notice. > >This change blows away the DocBook customization mechanism. The >purpose of distributing this DTD is solely to determine what >constitutes a valid XML DTD. Obviously some other method of >customization will be required (unless the SGML ERB can be >persuaded to relax its strictures on empty parameter entities). I want to ask what justification there is, if any, for ruling out empty PEs? I don't remember discussion of this point clearly (though I do remember shock when the rule was pointed out). This seems like a very bad idea, as Terry's desire for add entities in is very reasonable. Is this fallout of the weird SGML interleaving of entity structure and content model parsing? -- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@c... \ david@d... Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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