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Re: Whitespace following a text declaration

• To: mike@s...
• Subject: Re: Whitespace following a text declaration
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:29:36 GMT
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200602061011.KAA17360@n...> (mike@s...)
• References: <200602061011.KAA17360@n...>

> I'm surprised to discover that the parser in .NET includes the newline after
> the text declaration as part of the entity's expanded text, while both
> Crimson and Xerces (the versions built into JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5
> respectively) exclude the newline. 

Isn't .net right here? The production for a parsed entity is:

[78] extParsedEnt ::= TextDecl? content - Char* RestrictedChar Char*

which means that all the text after the ?> (including the newline)
should be parsed as content, doesn't it?

The situation is different from a document, where a following element is
mandatory (and white space after the xml declaration is parsed as S?)

An external parsed entity might _only consist of text.

David

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