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Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

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From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 02:33:35 +1100
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 From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>
 
> I am maintaining the position 
> that constraining syntax is pretty well orthogonal to naming characters 
> and it is only due to the accident of DTD history that we have this idea 
> that it's inevitable that "schemas" do both. 

But, for example, MathML defines both elements and entities.
Would you regard it as a special case, pioneering?  

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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