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David Brownell wrote: > - Validating Parsers > > - Nonvalidating Parsers that read external definitions > > - Nonvalidating Parsers that don't read those definitions > > Point being that as section 5.2 makes clear, some WF errors will > not be reported by the third category of parser, but must be > reported by the other two. I think, however, that NVPs may read some external entities (the DTD external subset, say) but not others (like the content of external general entities). > That'd be "SHALL NOT" ... but I think that a parser which > has read the external DTD entities MUST report as a WF error > such problems. See the XML specification in section 5.2, which > is explicit that this is a WF error AND that it's not consistently > reported. No, it means "MAY fail to" or "MAY or may not". > > 7. An NVP MAY NOT signal an error if a reference is made to an > > unparsed entity, if the entity was declared in some external entity. > > As above -- this is a "MUST" if the parser reads external entities. > and a "MUST NOT" elsewhere. Unless it reads some e.e.s but not others. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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