Re: Proposition: "SGML is Gumming Up the Works"

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:31:21 -0400


matt@veosystems.com wrote:

> Are you calling for the resurrection of SHORTREFS? Content models should
> ideally address the abstract syntax tree. Lexical constraints address
> content. If you want to cross them, you need something like SHORTREFS (or
> BNF).

I have called for a simple-minded kind of SHORTREF, to address the
fact that #PCDATA content has internal markup of a type-specific
kind: decimal points in numbers, colons and hyphens in dates, etc.
etc.

Coming soon: ShortRefFilter.

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