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Re: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobject toinsert external files
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:58:55AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> 1. Can we limit it to parse=text. I don't think so. If we refer
> normatively to XInclude, we have to accept XInclude semantics.
Can't we somewhat put the parse attribute to #FIXED ? That would just
subset the standard - would be easy to do with an architectural form
(and I read somewhere that architectural forms apply to XML too).
> [...] Is the existence of
> XInclude a sufficiently strong motivator to provide the functionality
> that way? It might be, given the semantic issues of encodings and such,
> but I'm not sure.
If it is, at least people using SGML would somewhat feel left behind I
think :(
> Right. But even that is tricky since DTDs and namespaces don't play
> together terribly well.
What about namespaces and schemas ? Wouldn't it be reasonable to
switch from DTDs to schemas at some point ? This at least would be a
motivation for me to leave SGML. But I don't want to be forced into
XML DTDs. I have a DocBook-derived DTD that makes use of SGML
features that were for some reason dropped from XML (namely, the "&"
connector in content models).
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