Re: [xml-dev] MicroXML and &

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

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 20:27 +0100, Pete Cordell wrote:
> Uche's post about MicroXML reminded me...
> 
> Did we ever discuss the option of allowing & not followed by #, amp;, lt;, 
> gt;, quot; or apos; to be considered simply as an & so you could do AT&T? 
> This would make manually writing MicroXML a lot easier!

The first SGML document I ever worked on was about R&D at AT&T and it
took me ages to work out why it didn't parse :-)

I don't think banning é would fly - it's part of MathML and HTML.

It's possible that having the HTML + ISO + MathML entity sets hardwired
into Web browsers and explicitly allowing programs to handle undeclared
entities in such a way would get somewhere.

Liam

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