[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)
For what it's worth, the MS-XML parser also fails to validate the CDATA example because it takes the view that '<![CDATA[ ]]>' is not a replacement-text-entity and therefore the characters '<![' do NOT match the whitespace production. If this is replaced with the entity &ws; defined as <!ENTITY ws " "> MSXML will will validate. The reason is that we figured that we have to expand entities anyway for validation purposes because you can also do the following: <!DOCTYPE a [ <!ELEMENT a (b, c)> <!ELEMENT b EMPTY> <!ELEMENT c EMPTY> <!ENTITY ent "<b/><c/>"> ]> <a>&ent;</a> It doesn't make any sense to think of the contents of a CDATA section in terms of "replacement-text" because then you'd have to wonder about validating <![CDATA[<b/><c/>]]> which was NOT the point of CDATA sections. The point of CDATA was to treat <b/><c/> as UNPARSED text. 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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