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Tyler Baker scripsit: > In the current DOM spec, in the table for NodeValues, the Entity node > should return null for its node value. Shouldn't it return the value of > the entity or in the case the entity has not been expanded then return > null? The value of an entity appears as the children of the Entity node. This can be arbitrarily complex, with Text nodes or Element nodes or whatever (see the draft); it doesn't make sense to capture it as a "value" string. > Really, an entity with just a name, but no data associated with it is > pretty useless unless the entity is an external parsed entity where the > system id and notation name actually have some real relevance. Agreed. -- John Cowan cowan@c... e'osai ko sarji la lojban. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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