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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: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:21:27 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200211011654.QAA24055@p...>

davidc@n... (David Carlisle) writes:
> If an undefined entity was a validity rather than a well
>formed error then this layering would be fine.

Hmmm.... an idle thought suggests that non-validating parsers which
don't retrieve external resources may actually have an advantage here,
as the parser should assume that the undefined entity is just the result
of an unretrieved DTD fragment and use something like skippedEntity() to
report it.

Ouch.

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