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Peter Murray-Rust writes:
> Suggest that you rephrase it as questions. e.g. Q11 "Should SAX be
> able to recreate an ESIS stream?" I'd want good evidence why. [One
> reason could be that in that way one can easily compare the output
> of parsers, and also compare it with nsgmls and other ESIS-aware
> tools.]
You would find such a comparison surprisingly difficult, because the
order of attributes may vary and because different parsers will
divide character data into chunks differently. For example, if you
have
<listing>
<![CDATA[
<sample>text</sample>
]]>
</listing>
Ælfred will deliver one chunk of character data:
"\n\n\n <sample>text</sample>\n\n\n"
while another parser might deliver three:
"\n\n"
"\n <sample>text</sample>\n"
"\n\n"
The same applies to expanded entities, character references, etc.
All the best,
David
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