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Re: The subsetting has begun

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• Subject: Re: The subsetting has begun
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:23:57 +0000

[Walter Perry]
 >An XML-compliant parser *must* not turn an XML instance into any one 
particular
 >output. Production [1] is the syntactic criterion that *input* to an XML 
parser
 >must meet to be accepted as a document, which the Rec requires. Nothing 
in that
 >production (nor in any other) says anything about the form of output that a
 >parser must give to an entity matching this definition of document.

There are plenty of occurences of "may/may not/must pass X to the 
application" in the
spec. which surely say something about the form of output that a parser
must give?

Sean



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