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RE: 15 elementary truths about XML

• From: "Toby Considine" <Toby.Considine@gmail.com>
• To: "'Andrew Welch'" <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>,"'Michael Glavassevich'" <mrglavas@c...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:38:02 -0400

where does the parsing stop and the processing begin?

Ahh, I've been wondering about that my entire life....


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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 7:22 PM
To: Michael Glavassevich
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re:  15 elementary truths about XML

>> > 6. XML processors always interpret the bytes in XML files as
characters.
>> >
>> > 7. Thus, XML processors interpret XML files as a sequence of
characters.
>>
>> XML parsers right?  The 'processor' is the thing that processes what 
>> the parser reports...
>
> Terminology: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-xml-proc
>
> The 'processor' is the thing that reads an XML document and makes its 
> content available to an 'application'. An XML parser is an XML processor.

Ah ok, thanks for the link.

Do you know why it's 'processor' over just 'parser', is it DTD related?  Or
put another way - where does the parsing stop and the processing begin?




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  • 15 elementary truths about XML
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: 15 elementary truths about XML
    • From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
  • Re: 15 elementary truths about XML
    • From: Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@ca.ibm.com>
  • Re: 15 elementary truths about XML
    • From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>