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David Brownell wrote: > > > Eliot The K asserts ... external parsed entities are evil ... > > Or in short, the tool can be misused, so ban the tool. I'm > not convinced, nor am I likely to be. Applied with consistency, > that makes banging rocks together to make fire become evil. Not really. You agree to a set of tests by which you determine if: o The rocks are the right rocks to make fire o The combustible is in combustible condition (not wet) o An igniting accelerant is required or available o A set of tests are available o What to do if any or all of the above conditions aren't met Known as conformance tests for systems, they are written for the contract and referenced from there. In all cases I can think of, they have a timing/duration value set whose opening and closing events are also authoritatively stated. External parsed entities aren't evil. They just smell funny after you have to bake the namespace. len 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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