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- From: "Don Park" <donpark@quake.net>
- To: "XML Dev" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:50:29 -0800
>Nathan Kurz wrote:
>
>> And if the stream is continuous (for example, an XML
>> stock ticker) even the concept of a well-formed stream seems tenuous.
>
>It's not clear that XML supports infinitely long streams (where the
>end-tag of the document element is *never* reached).
I remember bringing this issue up long time ago under a different name:
Endless Documents. There was no single solution to this problem that worked
for all situations. For certain applications, using well-formed external
entities worked. Low-level data multiplexing works. Protocol tunneling
sometimes needs to be used to get around legacy problems.
The fact that DTD had to be declared at the head of a document and could not
be changed or augmented afterward poses problems but I am hoping that the
Schema WG will address this soon.
Don Park
Docuverse
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