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Article:
 The Long, Long Arm of SGML
Subject: The Competing Proposal
Date: 2003-11-06 03:37:14
From: d e

Unless I'm missing something there is a flaw it this. Current tools would not see these documents as being well formed, as the entity reference is not defined in any DTD. If it used a different syntax, without significance in XML 1.1, it could be backward compatible. This would be similar to the way XML namespaces do not break well-formedness when parsed by non-namespace aware applications.


Also, the elements (typically the root) could become cluttered with these attributes. Also there is no way to import a set of them as for example the entities used in HTML.


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