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On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 11:19, Bob Foster wrote:
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> > So I think that Richard is sadly correct here: people who want to use
> > named character references and get rid of DTDs must implement their
> > own non-standard systems. So we should not waste our time with
> > standards conformance, but just go ahead and do it; if enough of
> > us implement the same thing, maybe W3C will add it. If a
> > standard is an "agreement" that reflects industry practise, I guess
> > that is the way it has to be. What should XML-DEVers do? Define some
> > SAX property to handle this, then get it implemented in the standard
> > SAX parsers?
>
> I think it would be interesting to explore the solution space that can
> be implemented by an XSLT transform, preferably XSLT 1.0.
Yes, that was the purpose of my latest proposal
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200310/msg00580.html.
Now, if we were using XSLT 2.0, we could use regular expressions more
easily and define the scope (both for elements and attributes) where
another syntax -$(fubar) or anything else- could be used as entity
references.
> (I don't think
> people are married to the &fubar; syntax; it's more like they're stuck
> with it.)
Probably.
> At least, this space should be exhausted before changes to XML or
> specialized preprocessors are invoked.
+1
Eric
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