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TITLE: Japan's comments on SC34 N526: WD/DSDL-8 Declarative document architectures
SOURCE: SC34/Japan
PROJECT: WD 19757-8: Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) Part 8 - Declarative document manipulation
PROJECT EDITOR: Mr. Martin Bryan
STATUS: Response to SC34 N526
ACTION: Discussion in the WG1 meeting, September 2004
DATE: 2004-08-22
DISTRIBUTION: SC34 and Liaisons
REFER TO: N0526 - 2004-06-01 - Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) - Part 8: Declarative document architectures
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Japan's comments on SC34 N526: WD/DSDL-8 Declarative document architectures

(1) Drop XPath, since it makes implementation difficult.

(2) Drop entity renaming. It cannot be implemented without changing XML parsers.

(3) Examples are strongly required.