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Re: Wellformed?

• To: Jeff Rafter <lists@j...>
• Subject: Re: Wellformed?
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:38:44 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Jeff Rafter wrote:
> I can't tell if this Wellformedness check is supposed to happen at the time
> of construction of the replacement text or at the time of inclusion. My
> guess would be that it should happen at the time of construction, and this
> is supported by the addtional constraint that all productions must begin and
> end in the same entity (i.e., you can't start an element in one entity and
> end it in another). Does this apply to namespaces though?
> 
> If the wellformedness/ns processing step occurs at the point of construction
> and not when the replacement text is included then I must presume that none
> of these items are NS correct-- because the "bar" prefix is undeclared. The
> only way to make them correct would be to include an NS decl in the entity
> literal.
> 
> The reason I ask is because I am trying to patch the AElfred parser to check
> for WFness of entity literals-- but I am not sure if I should be checking
> WFness upon reading the literal or upon inclusion (or both?)

I'm afraid your model is too simplistic. Some well-formed errors can be 
detected immediately; some can't.

Please see Henry Thompson's response.

Bob Foster
http://xmlbuddy.com/

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    • From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
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    • From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
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    • From: "Jeff Rafter" <lists@j...>

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