Re: Revised language on: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Sat, 6 May 95 19:05:53 EDT

Dan:
| Terry Allen writes:
| > >I actually make ISO10646 a binding constraint without putting it
| > in the public text (the SGML declaration). See what you think:

| > That's bogus. We need the SGML declaration that goes with your language.

| This is argument by assertion.
| Why do we "need the ..."

So as to construct a valid SGML entity for parsing, a goal you have
yourself enunciated for MIMESGML. Yes, I assert that I need an SGML
decl in order to parse HTML. Do I need to trot out all the ISO 8879
paragraph citations to justify such an assertion?

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