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Re: Special XML parsers

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: Special XML parsers
• From: James Clark <jjc@j...>
• Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:02:33 +0700
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> IIRC James Clark's expat could also be criticized on 
> similar grounds: it did not handle parameter entities: however this was 
> clearly documented and expat was exploratory.

The XML Recommendation does not require non-validating processors to 
process any part of the DTD outside the internal subset. I took great 
care to ensure that expat always did all the DTD processing required for 
conformance (such as default attribute processing and handling of 
internal entities declared in the internal subset).

James

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