Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

From: "Tim Bray" <>
 
> I am maintaining the position 
> that constraining syntax is pretty well orthogonal to naming characters 
> and it is only due to the accident of DTD history that we have this idea 
> that it's inevitable that "schemas" do both. 

But, for example, MathML defines both elements and entities.
Would you regard it as a special case, pioneering?  

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe