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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: "Hutchison, Nigel" <Nigel.Hutchison@softwareag.com>, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:56:30 -0800
At 09:40 AM 1/13/00 +0100, Hutchison, Nigel wrote:
>"External references in entities are highly depreciated and hopefully seldom
>used."
>
>This seems a bit extreme to me.
They've never been officially deprecated, but on the other hand there
are a lot of people who hate them. On another hand, there are a lot
of common tasks in the publishing world where they are awfully useful.
>Will X-LINK make External Entities redundant in the near future.?
>Any views on this topic?
XLink will *not* replace external entities in my opinion
Note the existence of the XInclude proposal on w3.org/TR - it is
explicitly designed to do what entities do.
-Tim
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