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Re: A heavier-weight proposal for character entitydefinition

• To: jjc@j...
• Subject: Re: A heavier-weight proposal for character entitydefinition
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:57:41 GMT
• Cc: ht@c..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <342102887.1013070987@localhost> (message from James Clark onThu, 07 Feb 2002 08:36:27 +0700)
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 Instead of a simple hash table that maps 
 character codes to entities, you have to have a trie.  I also see a 
 slippery slope opening up here:

Yes I know, sorry:-) But I thought I'd better speak up since mathml was
being used as a use case.

Actually it wouldn't be so bad if the entities were single characters
and we dropped ≦̸ and made people write ≦&negationslash; or
something, however you wouldn't be able to cover the old ISO entity
names using that scheme. (Does that still matter, I wonder?)

Davod

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