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Re: re: The J2ME pseudo-XML botch

• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: re: The J2ME pseudo-XML botch
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:33:59 -0500
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At 1:29 PM -0500 2/23/03, Mike Champion wrote:


>I'd like to see a dialogue here, and to be honest I don't think 
>calling the J2ME proposal a "pseudo-XML botch" is a good opening. 
>Labels aside (isn't J2ME more or less implementing the XML-SW 
>proposal? <grin>)

No, it's not. XML-SW allows the DOCTYPE declaration, though it 
removes the internal DTD subset. The currently proposed J2ME version 
of SAX throws a SAXParseException as soon as it sees a DOCTYPE, 
internal subset or no.
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