Re: DOCBOOK: Re: format notations

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 9:48 AM -0500 11/8/01, Norman Walsh wrote:

>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?
>


Honestly, I don't. The reason I'm worrying about this stuff now is 
that I'm looking for examples of unparsed entities and notations to 
use in books, but I don't really want to use this.
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