Re: Quotes in PEReferences

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:57:25 -0400


Chris Hubick wrote:

> > 4. It shall be easy to write programs which process XML documents.
>
> Did somebody say easy? :-) Compared to what? Ok, so it isn't
> _that_ hard, but I don't know if I would call this easy in the trivial
> sense of the word. PE References definitely take this beyond quick
> weekend hack.

I don't think that statement was meant to include processing the
external subset, and PErefs in the document proper (viz. in the
internal subset) are very limited.

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