Re: [xml-dev] ten years later, time to repeat it?

["bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>]

Well, how about disallowing DTDs for validation, just allow the
entitty declaring functionality with only internal entity declarations
allowed, external DTDs should have absolute url. That gets rid of a
good deal of complexity.


Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> wrote:
> Tim Bray wrote:
>  >
>  > In 2002, I proposed XML-SW (http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html)
>  > which retains namespaces but discards DTD's (thus entities and
>  > notations and so on) and the <!DOCTYPE>, also rolling in the
>  > Information Set and xml:base.   I still think it's a good idea.
>  +1 (except I'd like for all the W3C and math special character entities
>  to be built-in: too many people like them and XHTML uses them)
>
>  Cheers
>  Rick Jelliffe
>
>
>
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