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Re: Re: determining ID-ness in XML

• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 06:19:57 -0400

At 1:54 PM +1100 10/31/01, Rick Jelliffe wrote:


>If it were couple with the rule that unknown entity references are resolved
>against the ISO standard entity sets (i.e. build the ISO sets into XML),
>then it would allow DTD-less documents, suitable for lightweight, well-known
>and informal systems.
>

But that's a much bigger change! It would produce non-well-formed XML 1.0 documents. xml:id and/or xml:idatts can be layered on top of XML 1.0 without changing anything about XML 1.0. 
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