[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: ten years later, time to repeat it?

• From: Len Bullard <len.bullard@u...>
• To: Tim.Bray@S..., Jim Melton <jim.melton@a...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:59:07 -0600

So are we at some bifurcation point where the needs of messages on the wire
and the needs of document publishing are actually perceived as incompatible
and in need of separate standards?  Or are we at the point where we
understand that document publishing is combinatoric (separate standards used
in combination) and that messaging-on-the-wire is not document publishing?

len


From: Tim.Bray@S... [mailto:Tim.Bray@S...] 

ENTITY declarations are reasonably sane in the publishing-technology  
context (although less useful in practice than the theory of SGML  
held), and XML was invented by by a bunch of publishing-tech geeks.   
In the world of wire protocols, Entities are actively pernious; among  
other things, they open the door to the billion-laughs attack.  You  
really don't want a general-purpose recursive macro processor running  
over high-volume protocol traffic.

-Tim

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: ten years later, time to repeat it?
    • From: Philippe Poulard <philippe.poulard@s...>