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[Sean McGrath] > >> The only way to process them would be to do so *lexically*. >> In shifting to a lexical based algorithm you would need to >> basically *re-write* an XML parser in order to be sure >> that you were identifying character entity references correctly >> every time. > [Rick Jelliffe] >You couldn't do it reliably: you could only guess based on some other >out-of band information. (Such as a "character collection" >specification) Sorry for being a bit dumb but you have lost me. If it cannot be done reliably, how does an XML parser do it? [...] >And it means that you want the presence of a character reference to signify >some processing instruction or semantic, it is tag abuse: use a PI or >entityref or element. It does not mean I want the presence of a character reference to signify some processing instruction or semantic. Character references exist in XML instances. I want to reliably find them. Where is the tag abuse in that? regards, http://www.pyxie.org - an Open Source XML Processing library for Python
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