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RE: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

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• Subject: RE: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 04 Nov 2002 22:27:18 +0100
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Hi Micah,

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 22:19, Micah Dubinko wrote:
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> 
> >So no DTD is needed. If someone uses character entities in a document
> >being sent to a lightweight parser that didn't provide its own
> declarations,
> >it would be a WF error, as currently exists.
> 
> Question: why is this currently a WF error, as opposed to a validity error?
> 
> Are there any known cases of processing that *depends* on this being
> a WF error (and would thus be surprised if it someday became allowed)?

Isn't it the case for any processing that depends on this being an error
and uses a non validating parser (or tells a validating parser to skip
validation)?

The next question is probably: if it's not an error, what is the parser
expected to send that will be understood by let's say a XSLT
transformation?

Eric
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