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• Subject: Re: Suggestions for a slightly less verbose (and easier toauthor) XML
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 00:15:48 -0400
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[Rob Lugt]

> Simon St.Laurent wrote
> > >Sure, I was thinking of adding these extensions (perhaps they should be
> > >called contractions) as an option to ElCel's xmlcanon [1].  Would
anybody
> > >find this useful?
> >
> > As long as it's a separate part and not built right into the parser, it
> > sounds good to me.
>
> That would only be possible if the suggested changes were handled by some
> kind of pre-processor.  I don't think such a pre-processor would be
viable;
> it would need to have all the features of an XML parser itself.  However,
I
> don't see updating the XML parser as being a problem, so long as the
> extensions are controlled by options which are disabled by default.
>
 No more options!  We have too many already.  Options reduce
interoperability.

Cheers,

Tom P

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