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Re: human interaction with XML

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• Subject: Re: human interaction with XML
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 14:50:55 -0400
• In-reply-to: <3ED8F6E1.8010805@t...>

tbray@t... (Tim Bray) writes:
>For publishing-oriented apps of XML, we're nowhere near being able to
>do away with entities, and the state of the art for handling them is
>not very advanced.

I've chosen entities mostly because there's a tremendous amount of
possibility here - lowest entry cost (now that I've written a parser,
anyway, though I think libxml might provide similar access), greatest
possibility for making my own work life simple.

I suspect that a lot of the challenges around entities have to do with
the question of what constitutes an advance.  It seems like a case where
coming up with a sample processor is a better way to gauge people's
opinions than discussion, so I'll see what I can come up with.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org

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