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Re: technical term (and reference) for "XML fragment"

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:28:03 +0100

David Carlisle wrote:
> external parsed entity?
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#TextEntities
> 
> if you want to allow an encoding decln?

No, that wouldn't be allowed. Essentially: whatever character sequence 
you can stick between <foo> and </foo> and get well-formed XML.

> Or you could reference this but it's in a permanent (I assume) CR state
> 
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-fragment#defn-fragment

Yes, that proposal was made as well; but it appears a big heavyweight 
for something that really should be simple to define...

Thanks, Julian

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  • technical term (and reference) for "XML fragment"
    • From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
  • Re: technical term (and reference) for "XML fragment"
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>