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> a. What is the size of the smallest valid XML entity?
> b. well-formed?
> c. 1.1 valid?
> d. 1.1 well-formed?
0 bytes. The following entity's length is 0 bytes:
<!ENTITY foo "">
Of course if you meant "external entity" then the answer is different:
a. 0 bytes
b. 0 bytes
c. 21 bytes (the length of the textDecl: <?xml version="1.1"?>)
d. 21 bytes
If you meant "document" or "document entity" then the answers differ
still more
a. 27 bytes (<!DOCTYPE a SYSTEM "a"><a/>)
b. 4 bytes (<a/>)
c. 48 bytes (<?xml version="1.1"?><!DOCTYPE a SYSTEM "a"><a/>)
d. 25 bytes (<?xml version="1.1"?><a/>)
The answer to "a" would change slightly if you wanted to know the whole
document total. Also all of these answers would change if you had in
mind a different serialization, at which point some on this list would
argue that you are not talking XML. Also, I don't know if you are asking
about a serialized document or if I could use various parser features,
for example, to supply a DOCTYPE pogrammatically.
So I go with my first answer. 0 bytes.
All the best,
Jeff Rafter
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