Why no ']]>' in CharData?

[Don Park]

>I've got a lot of decimal-based entities in my code; what is 
>your compelling reason for making me convert all of them to
>hex in the name of a *Simple* Markup Language?  Conversely,
>maybe Joe over there uses a lot of hex-based Unicode entities;
>why should he have to go in and convert 'em to decimal?

That is a compelling reason except SML, as it is now, requires
at least some conversion/checking to make sure XML documents
conforms to SML.  So there is no extra cost for converting
everything to hex.

Can you think of any other compelling reasons?  I am genuinely
interested.

Best,

Don Park    -   mailto:donpark at docuverse.com
Docuverse   -   http://www.docuverse.com


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