Re: [xml-dev] Can XML documents have loops (cycles)?

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From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:51:23 -0400

> So, why can't XML documents have loops (cycles)?  Why doesn't an XML
> parser have to worry about falling into an infinite loop? 

Because an XML parser does not follow ID/IDREF's.  What standard tools do?


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