<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks for your comments, Eli.  I am still wavering on whether to do the permissive thing.  And I am also looking at whether Typed Scheme and/or "html-template" make the permissiveness less useful than before.  Permissiveness sure does make some things harder to implement and more computationally expensive.<br> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:19730.38915.255761.32677@winooski.ccs.neu.edu" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">[...] However, I have come up with what I think are some improvements to SXML, such as [...] attribute value composition [...] </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Is this aimed at the problem of combining `style' attributes? If so, can you say more on what you did for that? </pre> </blockquote> <br> I was speaking of named and numeric character entity references in attribute values, which are supported in some versions of XML and HTML.  "Composition" was a poor choice of term on the Racket email list.<br> <br> I'm not sure what you mean by "combining `style' attributes".  Is that a transform rather than a representation/linguistic issue?<br> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.neilvandyke.org/">http://www.neilvandyke.org/</a> </div> </body> </html>