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- From: "Don Park" <donpark@quake.net>
- To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:12:39 -0800
>The problem is that even if you don't care about entity boundaries,
>the XML 1.0 REC requires reporting of any entities that are not
>expanded (in the case, for example, of a non-validating parser that
>hasn't read the declaration in the external DTD subset). As a result,
>in a literal reading of the spec, a fully-conformant XML 1.0 API can
>*never* treat attribute values simply as strings. SAX 1.0 does so,
>and no one has ever minded, but conformance is conformance...
The XML REC uses the word 'report' a lot but wisely does get into what
reporting means. I think that as long as the information is available
on-demand through one mechanism or another, we can consider the reporting
requirement met.
Don
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