XML online and Entities

[Norbert Mikula]

David Schach wrote:
> This kind of bug will be common because SGML allows the & to be used
> this way. I think this difference in entity processing unnecessarily
> complicates SGML to XML conversion.

Rather this way, than having to deal with context
dependencies in a language :) The ERB did a great 
job when thinking about how to define the language to
ease the construction of lightweight and fast parsers 
(in a contemporary fashion).

-- 
Best regards,
Norbert H. Mikula

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