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

[Jim Melton <jim.melton@acm.org>]

Elliott,

At 2/18/2008 12:04 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:
 > There's just a lot of overhead to the internal DTD subset. Outside 
of XML tutorials, it's not even used all that often. :-(

Maybe I and my fellow editors of W3C and ISO specs are 'way out of 
the norm, but we use the internal DTD subset very extensively.  In 
fairness, I admit that we use it (almost?) exclusively for ENTITY 
declarations.

Jim

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