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Tim Bray wrote: > I'm with David Megginson here - you really have to stand on one > leg and not think of the word "rhinocerous" to see the XML spec as > mandating the checking of unreferenced entities. You're not going to see me arguing that you intended it to be read the rhino way. Nor are you going to see me claim that this was any- body else's actual intent. My contention is that if the spec actually says that entities may only be checked by a validating parser if used, it does so in a way that requires exegesis. Someone coming at the spec fresh, with lit- tle background in SGML, and without any foreknowledge of where you are headed. It may sound ludicrous, but I remember it taking me several readings of the spec, a look at some rather complex XML documents, and some preliminary implementation work, to realize that, for validating parsers, unreferenced entities must be left unchecked. If this is what's happened in IE, then yes, it's somewhat mysterious how they could have gotten as far as they did without realizing there were problems. But although DM has given me reason to think the spec is clearer than I have maintained, the fact is that I understand how they might have initially gone astray. > > (Incidentally, does it bother anyone else that you can have valid > > documents that aren't well-formed? It's probably not worth explaining what I meant to say here. -- Richard Goerwitz PGP key fingerprint: C1 3E F4 23 7C 33 51 8D 3B 88 53 57 56 0D 38 A0 For more info (mail, phone, fax no.): finger richard@g... 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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