Re: progress on HTML 2.0 reconstruction

Francois Yergeau (yergeau@alis.ca)
Wed, 5 Apr 95 14:26:12 EDT

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>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 22:56:52 EDT
>From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
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>You cannot disallow numeric character references in SGML. It's not
>a modular standard.

True. But you can still discourage their use to improve
interoperability, as is done with numerous SGML features in the
current draft: variants of minimized tags in 2.2.1, ">" in attribute
values in 2.2.3, use of <UL COMPACT="compact"> in same, ">" in
comments in 2.2.5, etc...

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François Yergeau <yergeau@alis.ca>

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