Re: [xml-dev] Alternative "character entity" proposal

[Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

>But surely before we can consider syntaxes for defining entities you
>need to get XML Core Group to reconsider making an non-dtd defined
>entity ref a validity rather than WF error. If é is a fatal
>error, no proposed definition mechanism will work..

That's why the XML version number would have to be changed, say to 2.0.

Making undefined entities a validity error in order to allow
experimentation would reduce interoperability.  I don't really see any
advantage to it over just doing those experiments with non-conforming
processors.  You don't need the XML Core Group's permission to do that :-)

-- Richard