xml-dev - RE: Entity processing (was new msxml behaviour)

[Chris Lovett <clovett@microsoft.com>]

The code;
	 if (sb.length() > 0)
       	sb.append(' ');
is a bug and will be removed from next version, along with several other
things :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Gindling [SMTP:jimg@digitalthink.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 05, 1997 9:28 AM
> To:	xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
> Subject:	RE: Entity processing (was new msxml behaviour)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Could somebody post the result of parsing the files Tim Bray posted
> according 
> to spec since there seems to be some question as to whether or not
> msxml is 
> doing it properly.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wednesday, November 05, 1997 12:36 AM, Tim Bray
> [SMTP:tbray@textuality.com] 
> wrote:
> > 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.xml >>  << File:
> > EntVal2.xml >> 
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