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- From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:11:29 -0800
Yes, the MSXML code is attempting to match the XML specs as recently revised
by the WG decision. (Thanks for the test files, Tim, Henry and Michael:
We'll use these in testing.)
--Andrew Layman
AndrewL@microsoft.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bray [SMTP:tbray@textuality.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 12:36 AM
> To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
> Subject: Entity processing (was new msxml behaviour)
>
> At 12:41 PM 05/11/97 +1300, Scott Cooper wrote:
> >the new msxml contains this code ...
> > if (sb.length() > 0)
> > sb.append(' ');
> >notice the appending of a space. is this appropriate?
>
> Recent WG decisions require that parameter entity expansions (outside
> of entitity values) should be forced to match an even number tokens
> simply by appending & prepending spaces to their expansion; I
> hypothesize that this is what the msxml code is doing.
>
> Of course, this can't be done when building the replacement text
> of an internal text entity. To aid in sorting this, out, I attach
> a couple of my test files; credit is due to Henry Thomson, Michael
> Sperberg-McQueen, and likely others for helping cook these up.
>
> I *think* that the behavior of Lark 0.97 on these is per the spec.
> But it's there's enough hair on this set of problems that there's
> lots of ways I could be wrong. -Tim << File: EntVal.txt >> << File:
> EntVal2.txt >>
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