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Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> From: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>
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>>[1] document ::= prolog (element Misc*)*
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> Nice. But I don't think that it does the same thing: my proposal provides
> an alternate syntax for internal entities which also allows bundled
> other documents. (Thinking about it more, it suggests that it might fill
> some nice needs if the entity mechanism was rejigged to allow appendable
> entities rather than having them in a prolog.)
To me, there are two separate issues. You asked how to have multiple
top-level elements. That's easy. It was always an arbitrary and probably
harmful limitation to restrict it to one in the first place. (somehow we
got it in our heads that trees were somehow more beautiful than forests)
On the other hand, there is the never-ending, never-resolved issue of
how to handle packaging of multiple entities nicely. I'm reluctant to
touch that one because there are too many half-solutions out there
already. I'm especially reluctant to tie a hard-to-solve problem to an
easy-to-solve one.
> I think you would need to have some top-level attribute available to
> say "this branch does not form part of the infoset" so that it can
> be referenced from an XInclude without appearing in the document
> twice (assuming we will perform some kind of XInclude linking early).
I'm not following you. I presume this attribute has something to do with
your solution because I don't see it as solving something in mine.
Paul Prescod
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