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Re: Ambiguity in XML spec

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: "Brown, Bryan" <bryanb@u...>, "xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 12:42:09 -0400

"Brown, Bryan" wrote:

> Ok, well I have a parser that i wrote from scratch, and of the 83 or so
> productions this is the only one my parser has a problem with. If when a
> NotationDecl has a publicID the systemliteral is optional (which is what the
> current spec implies)

That is so.  However, it is the *only* place where a public ID need not be
followed by a system ID.

> then the spec should have had productions like the
> following
> [83] NotationDecl ::= '<!NOTATION' S Name S (SystemID | PublicID )
> [84] PublicID ::= 'PUBLIC' S PubicLiteral (S SystemLiteral)?
> [85] SystemID ::= 'SYSTEM' S SystemLiteral

This one is technically correct, but confusing because of the use of PublicID
in a way which is specific to notations only (everywhere else ExternalID is used).

> Or
> [[83] NotationDecl ::= '<!NOTATION' S Name S (ExternalID | PublicID )
> [84] PublicID ::= 'PUBLICID' S PubicLiteral

Eh?  That is what it does say.

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