Re: [xml-dev] XMLisms and HTML parsing and modes (was: Re: XML5)

[Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 09:14 +0700, James Clark wrote:
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> > (4) the xml variant, <br/>, is based on changing NET to "/>", 
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> This wasn't altogether satisfactory

The final solution was cleaner, yes. I'd forgotten about it.
s/is based/was based/ :-)


>  See
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215

Wow, it's been along time since I saw that!
Thanks for the link - you never know what you'll find in /TR :-)

It reminds me, too, that we never did return to SDATA entities.

Liam

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