[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: How to spell "No PSVI" in XSLT 2.0 ?
I wrote: > Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > It certainly doesn't have to validate but a conforming XSLT processor > > *must* read the external DTD subset. The reason is that the XPath > > data model does not allow unresolved entity references. If any of > > these are defined in the external subset, then you can't build a data > > model for the document without reading the external subset. > > No, this isn't right at all. Skipped entity references are simply > invisible > to the data model, i.e. lost, just like anything else that's not > significant > in the data model. This is a very important distinction. > Otherwise, it would > be impossible to use a non-validating parser with XSLT. More precisely, it would be impossible to use a non-validating parser that meets the minimal conformance requirements for XML parsing. Evan
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