Re: DOCBOOK: Re: format notations

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

> From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
> 
> | <!ATTLIST imagedata format
> |  (BMP|CGM-CHAR|CGM-BINARY|CGM-CLEAR|DITROFF|DVI|EPS|EQN|FAX|GIF|GIF87a|GIF89a|JPG|JPEG|IGES|PCX|PIC|PNG|PS|SGML|TBL|TEX|TIFF|WMF|WPG|linespecific)
> | #IMPLIED >
> 
> This question reminded me of a question I was wondering about.
> 
> Does *anyone* use an SGML or XML system that actually *cares* about
> NOTATIONs? Would *any* application suffer if we simply did away with
> the notations and allowed the format attribute to be either a delimited
> list or just CDATA?

It is a good question, but how would one know?
A processor that has access to the DTD may be
using the NOTATION information, but I wouldn't
know it
We could use the time-honored "change it and
see what breaks" method to find out.  8^)

bobs
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