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David Megginson wrote: > > No, actually, if the parser says that it can handle the SGML > declaration that it happens to have read from some random place on > your system, then you know that if your document happens to match that > SGML declaration you'll get out what you expect. That model [expletive deleted] > too (even if it looked good on paper). I haven't had this happen to me in practice. I agree that the SGML declaration mechanism [expletive deleted] but I've never had it silently fail on me. Usually it vociferously fails! But that's neither here nor there: both specs handle their optional features badly. SGML hides its option declarations too far from the data and XML doesn't have option declarations at all! > SAX2, on the other hand, can take a stab classifying > its parsers (as could the DOM). That would be helpful. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Other Operating Environments Will Have Trouble Keeping up with Linux's Growth" - http://www.idc.com/Data/Software/content/SW033199PR.htm International Data Corporation bulletin 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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