Re: [xml-dev] Re: What is an XML Document? [Was: Re: [xml-dev] canonicalization]

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

At 04:11 PM 05/03/02 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>  For me there is no doubt that the document is the set. Well formedness
>is defined for the set, and a well formedness error detected when parsing
>an external entity affects the whole document.
>
>  Anyway, even if the REC may be ambiguous, from a programmer viewpoint the 
>document instance will likely to be based on those extra sets, XPath 
>for example requiring them.

More good arguments for getting rid of entities. -Tim