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Re: Need clarification of Section 2.11 End-of-Line Handling in

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• Subject: Re: Need clarification of Section 2.11 End-of-Line Handling in XML Specification
• From: james anderson <james.anderson@s...>
• Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:02:10 +0200
• In-reply-to: <3F5885BE.1CBFDBB6@m...>

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 14:46 Europe/Berlin, Roger L. Costello wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Here is section 2.11 End-of-Line Handling of the XML specification:
>
>       http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-line-ends
>
> ...
> "the XML processor normalized all line breaks in ***external parsed
> entities*** (including the document entity) on input, before parsing, 
> by
> translating both the two-character sequence #xD #xA and any #xD that is
> not followed by #xA to a single #xA character."
>
> ...
the phrase "(including the document entity)" would appear to this 
reader to specify that all #xd#xa, #xd, and #xa sequences would have to 
have been normalized in the given example. as in,

> <?xml version="1.0"?> \n
> <!DOCTYPE Test [ \n
> <!ENTITY p SYSTEM "para.txt"> \n
> ]> \n
> <Test> \n
>      <para>This is a \n
>      simple paragraph. What \n
>      do you think of it?</para> \n
> </Test> \n

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