Re: Comments on June 8 draft (long)

David Morris (dwm@shell.portal.com)
Wed, 14 Jun 95 17:49:19 EDT

On Wed, 14 Jun 1995, Daniel W. Connolly wrote:

> In message <9506141838.AA00109@trystero.art.com>, Joe English writes:
>
> >2.2.1. Data Characters, p. 8:
> >
> >| Note that the terminating semicolon is only necessary when the
> >| character following the reference would otherwise be recognized
> >| as markup:
> > ^^^^^^
> >
> >Should read "would otherwise be recognized as part of the entity name".
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Same difference. I'll pass on this one.

I gotta agree with Joe on this one ... it is not the same difference.

>[...]
> By the way... Roy Fielding suggested getting rid of the METHODS
> attribute of the A and LINK element. I'm game for it. In fact,
> I can imagine getting rid of URN and TITLE too. Any thoughts?

Well the test is 'current practice' ... as far as I can tell URN
is still being defined. Does any UA support METHODS or TITLE?

Dave Morris