Re: External DTD Grammar

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 15:35:47

At 16:47 03/08/98 +0000, Chris Hubick wrote:
>
>The following is an attempt to construct BNF productions for XML in the
>internal and external DTD subsets. These productions should reflect what
[...]
>I don't really know what I am doing here, I just threw this together in
>5 minutes and I am doing it to generate feedback.
>
>So am I completely off my rocker?

I can't help with the technical details but can reassure you (at least for
your sanity) that PEs were a difficult problem when the spec was being
created - you'll see some discussion on XML-DEV about a year ago or
earlier. The current solution clarified the situation a lot. So I'd be
surprised if it was seriously broken.

P.

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