Quotes in PEReferences

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Thu Aug 6 23:58:00 BST 1998


Chris Hubick wrote:

> > 4. It shall be easy to write programs which process XML documents.
> 
>         Did somebody say easy? :-)  Compared to what?  Ok, so it isn't
> _that_ hard, but I don't know if I would call this easy in the trivial
> sense of the word.  PE References definitely take this beyond quick
> weekend hack.

I don't think that statement was meant to include processing the
external subset, and PErefs in the document proper (viz. in the
internal subset) are very limited.

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