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> Jonathan Borden writes: > > > Beyond requiring that external entities and default attributes be > > expanded, is there a way to allow non- and validating parsers to > > process the same XML documents in a functionally similar fashion, > > that is, the same SAX events be fired or the same DOM tree be > > constructed whether or not validation is employed? Absolutely: when a nonvalidating parser reads all external entities, it behaves almost exactly like a validating parser that's configured to ignore validity errors. Differences are minor ... ignorable whitespace must be reported as such by the validating parser, as must unparsed entities. But nonvalidating parsers are free to report this info through SAX, and quite a lot of them do. Aelfred was the first, and Sun's does too (both validating and nonvalidating options). - Dave 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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