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Matthew Sergeant (EML) wrote: > [Information from notations] doesn't appear (to me) to be any use > to parsers. If by "parsers" you mean narrowly what the XML Rec calls "XML processors, you are quite right. It is meant for the lowest level of XML applications, just above the parser proper. > It can be of /some/ use to custom parser code, but only when > that code has prior knowledge of these notation definitions. And that's a > shame. There has to be such knowledge somewhere. The model of "tag data of a given type with a magic string" has worked well for MIME; one advantage of notations is that they allow anybody to standardize a type, not just IANA. > Perhaps we need some standard notations? We do. Lay on, Macduff. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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