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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: simonstl@s...
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:26:32 GMT
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <r01050400-1021-5A997B6CEDBE11D6870B0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]>(simonstl@s...)
• References: <r01050400-1021-5A997B6CEDBE11D6870B0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]>

> Hmmm.... an idle thought suggests that non-validating parsers which
> don't retrieve external resources may actually have an advantage here,

yes that is the annoying thing about the current spec,

<x>&foo;</x>

is a not well formed but

<!DOCTYPE SYSTEM "/dev/null">
<x>&foo;</x>
is well formed but not valid.

If it was always well formed even without the pointless <!DOCTYPE things
would be a lot easier if you wanted to experiment with alternative
entity declaration mechanisms.

David

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