Re: comments on the DTD in Nov 16 draft

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Tue, 22 Nov 94 09:45:19 EST

> FUNCTION
-- SPACE 32
TAB SEPCHAR 9
LF SEPCHAR 10
FF SEPCHAR 12
CR SEPCHAR 13 --

-- The above is an accurate description of the usage of FUNCTION --
-- characters in HTML implementations; that is, there is no --
-- Record Start or Record End character, and no occurences of --
-- character 10 or 13 are "ignored" by the parser. --
-- But because few SGML implementations support this concrete --
-- sytax, we include the one below. --

-- Note that in order to get correct behaviour w.r.t. newline --
-- processing, you will have to play some tricks in construcing --
-- the document entity for parsing in order to keep the parser --
-- from ignoring newlines in surpirsing ways --

would you please explain this further? and if it's not functional,
can we relegate the issue to the documentation?

Regards,

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