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At 10:54 AM 5/4/99 -0400, Joshua E. Smith wrote: >First, an easy one: If a language is defined in XML, you would say that >language is XML-______. Compliant? Derived? ish? ey? Compatible? XML-based? >I'm trying to choose a parser to use in my plugin. I see a choice between >expat, which is non-validating, and will increase my download size by ><100K, and SP which is validating, and will increase my download size by >about 1MB. Gak. James is working on a version of expat which compiles to substantially less, at the cost of some performance (i.e. it'll still be faster than anything else, I bet). I don't think SP is appropriate in the general case for XML apps. >I suppose that the validation should really be done a priori by the content >developer using a validating editor, so doing validation in my plugin is >really unnecessary. Is that true? Depends whether you trust the source. If you're writing both ends, you're probably OK (once you've got the system debugged). >Do commercial validating XML editors exist yet? Yes. From Arbortext (Adept) and (shipping any day now) SoftQuad (XMetaL). Frame+SGML is, as the name suggests, SGML not XML, but it'll work OK with XML. >I also suppose that my DTD is going to be pretty big by the time it's done, >and downloading it every time someone wants to use my plugin is kind of >stupid. Right? So that's another reason NOT to use a validating parser. Maybe the best reason. >But in my reading [XML Specification Guide: Graham, Quin, 1999], it >appears that non-validating parsers are allowed to ignore tons of stuff. >Is there ANY documentation of what expat actually *does*? (For that >matter, is there any documentation at all?) .h files :) >I assume it ignores external >entities, right? Wrong. Mind you, you have to do some extra work to deal with them. -Tim 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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