Philippe Poulard wrote:
> Hi Elliotte,
>
> Elliotte Harold a écrit :
>> 2. Remove the internal DTD subset. Allow the DOCTYPE declaration to
>> point at schemas of various types and move all discussion of validity
>> to separate documents for different schema languages.
>
> even if DTDs become external, a native support of namespaces inside
> would be relevant ; a little extension to support data types would be
> valuable as well :
>
> <!ATTLIST image height xs:int #REQUIRED>
Let a thousand schema languages bloom. As logn as the data types are
completely external to the base document and parser, I'm happy.
>> 3. Expand the list of predefined entity references to include what's
>> defined in HTML and MathML.
>
> what about referring character entities by their Unicode names instead
> of their domain-specific names ? it's the same but less antique and more
> universal
>
An implementation might be
tricky. You'd need to carry around way too much data with the parser.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
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