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- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 09:16:05 +0700
Tim Bray wrote:
>
> At 01:37 PM 04/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
> > > Agreed. Could we change the first method to
> > > startDocument(String root, String DTDSysID, String DTDPubID)
> > > these obviously each being null in the event the document doesn't
> > > provide them? -Tim
> >
> >This is a great idea, but it will require an implementation to queue
> >events. For example, if I have
> >
> > <?foo bar?>
> > <!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "doc.dtd">
> >
> >I have to queue the PI event(s) until I have found the DOCTYPE
>
> Why? The PI is 'before' the doc in any meaningful sense... so they
> get some PI events before they get the startDocument event. Is this
> a problem? -Tim
I think this is inconsistent with the XML spec:
document ::= prolog element Misc*
prolog ::= XMLDecl? Misc* (doctypedecl Misc*)?
PIs before the doctypedecl are part of the document.
I also feel that it's wrong to give special treatment to the external
identifier in the doctypedecl.
<!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "doc.dtd">
is just a convenient shorthand for
<!DOCTYPE doc [
<!ENTITY % whatever SYSTEM "doc.dtd">
%doc;
]>
James
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