xml-dev - RE: Parser Behaviour (serious)

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Didier PH Martin writes:

 > David said:
 > Wrong.  Non-validating processors can also include the external DTD
 > subset (it's optional for them, not forbidden).
 > 
 > Didier replies:
 > Is this because a DTD can contain external entities declarations and because
 > of this fact, the parser has to read the DTD to resolve these external
 > entities?

More likely, because it's (a) looking for default attribute values, or 
(b) trying to distinguish whitespace in element content.  AElfred does 
both of these, even though it's non-validating.  I agree with Peter
that this is all a bit of a muddle.

The safest approach seems to be to distribute XML documents normalized
(all external general entities expanded and all default attribute
values filled in) and without a DOCTYPE declaration.  Mind you, that
prevents them from being XHTML-conformant...


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david@megginson.com
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