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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

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• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 02:33:35 +1100
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 From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>
 
> I am maintaining the position 
> that constraining syntax is pretty well orthogonal to naming characters 
> and it is only due to the accident of DTD history that we have this idea 
> that it's inevitable that "schemas" do both. 

But, for example, MathML defines both elements and entities.
Would you regard it as a special case, pioneering?  

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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