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Re: XML Catalog Policy Draft 1



Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@linuxweasel.com> writes:

> XML is not SGML, please don't treat it as such.  Things like xml-base
> and namespaces make XML not SGML.  SGML tools will probably choke on XML
> data that contains these (data being DTDs, ISO entity files, documents,
> and the like).  If you're worried about the FHS stuff, bring it up on
> the list again.  Just before the SGML stuff was added (way back when),
> folks on the list realized that XML was evolving to be not SGML, and
> agreed that the FHS section on SGML should be SGML explicit.  Alas, I
> don't think the FHS maintainer actually got the new text to that
> effect.

It is a good argument.  I'm wavering...

I guess the real question is, what would users expect?

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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>



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