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Re: Alternative "character entity" proposal

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• Subject: Re: Alternative "character entity" proposal
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:48:46 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200310212231.XAA08981@s...>

richard@c... (Richard Tobin) writes:
>Making undefined entities a validity error in order to allow
>experimentation would reduce interoperability.  I don't really see any
>advantage to it over just doing those experiments with non-conforming
>processors.  You don't need the XML Core Group's permission to do that
>:-)

I think Richard's right about this - there's no sense changing the rules
used in production to support experimentation.

At the same time, I think it would help for a lot of people to start
cooking up their own non-conforming processors so that we have a field
in which experiments can take place.

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  • Re: Alternative "character entity" proposal
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