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Re: Why not canonical parsers? [Was: Pull-based XML parsers? ]

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:21:25 -0500

Ronald Bourret wrote:

> I don't think you can do quite that -- canonical XML is a post-parse
> form. For example, if you replace CDATA sections with their data, then
> the document:
> 
>    <A><[CDATA[ < ]]></A>
> 
> becomes:
> 
>    <A> < </A>
> 
> which is not suitable for sending to somebody -- they'll get an error
> parsing it.

Nope, Canonical XML is fully parsable XML: in this case it would be:

	<A> &amp; </A>

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