Issues with makeinfo's XML format

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

While playing around with makeinfo's XML format I saw the following
problems:

* The XML files are almost valid, but not totally: Apparently they
  are not UTF-8 encoded, but due to the missing "<?xml ..."
  declaration, that's what XML parsers must assume.  (And so mine
  failed to accept the file.)

* The files contain named entities (like &copyright;) but numbered
  entities would be better because it causes less trouble with
  e.g. non-validating parsers, or if the DTD is not available.
  Moreover it makes the DTD simpler.

* The TeX (and eventually the LaTeX) logos should result in <logo
  name="TeX"/> so that they can be printed properly.

* Missing <math> and <dmn> have been mentioned already.  As for the
  <dmn> element, it would be good if the number is included too,
  e.g. <dmn><value>30</value><unit>pt</unit></dmn>.  <value> would
  be optional.

* An author or a group of authors can't be passed to the XML format.
  If fact, the only surviving meta info is the title.

* How is it planned to include deffn and such into the XML format?

Tschoe,
Torsten.

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