Re: [xml-dev] misprocessing namespaces (was Re: [xml-dev] There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone)

At 8:24 AM -0800 1/31/02, Tim Bray wrote:
>At 12:43 PM 31/01/02 +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>>For XML 2, if it keeps entities
>
>*If* there's ever an XML 2 - and that's a long shot - one of
>the #1 requirements would be nuke entities, I think.  -Tim
>

I must say I'm surprised to hear that, especially coming from you. 
Just for curiosity's sake, would you mind elaborating on your 
reasoning? Personally, I've often thought unparsed entities were on 
the wrong side of the 90/10 divide, but parsed entities seem quite 
useful.
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