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Re: Ambiguity in XML spec

  • From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
  • To: "Brown, Bryan" <bryanb@u...>, "xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@x...>
  • Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:40:19 -0400

Re: Ambiguity in XML spec
"Brown, Bryan" wrote:

> > > Or
> > > [[83] NotationDecl ::= '<!NOTATION' S Name S (ExternalID |
> > PublicID )
> > > [84] PublicID ::= 'PUBLICID' S PubicLiteral
> >
> > Eh?  That is what it does say.
> 
> No i changed the string in [84] to be 'PUBLICID' then when parsing if you
> see PUBLICID you know it is a public id without a systemLiteral, if you see
> 'PUBLIC'then you know it is publicId followed by a system literal.
> I don't think this is a good solution but it does remove the ambiguity.

At the expense of not being XML (or SGML either).

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