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• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 10:24:32 -0600

John Cowan wrote:
> 
> Because I thought XML (and Unicode) were in the business of enabling,
> not constraining.  

XML DTDs are in the business of constraining people to the data models and
data that the software is expecting/can deal with. I don't see any big
difference between saying: "This content must be restricted to this set of
characters" and "this content must be a NMTOKEN or base-64 encoded."

Nevertheless, this is clearly a schema problem and CDATA sections seem to
me to be a really bad tool for enforcing this distinction. No editor
vendor is going to support that use for them so it is a moot point.

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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