DOCBOOK: Re: format notations

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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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?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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