> why do inline declarations need an additional operator? what's wrong with
> allowing element - or, in a similar sense, entity declarations - to appear with
> their standard syntax?
That all has to be discussed. (I really shouldnt have mentioned that, I find
it confusing enough trying to keep up with the latest XML draft, let alone
all the suggestions being considered for SGML! There is a big back catalog of
changes that WG4 has approved for the revision. The ones with a specific
correlation to XML have been expedited for WebSGML [the update to SGML]
so that XML and SGML will be in synch.)
Rick Jelliffe