• To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>,"Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@f...>,"Jeni Tennison" <jeni@j...>
• Subject: RE: How to spell "No PSVI" in XSLT 2.0 ?
• From: "Evan Lenz" <evan@e...>
• Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 10:58:26 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <NDBBLMPNADEOOKGELJALEECBCJAA.evan@e...>

I wrote:
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> > It certainly doesn't have to validate but a conforming XSLT processor
> > *must* read the external DTD subset. The reason is that the XPath
> > data model does not allow unresolved entity references. If any of
> > these are defined in the external subset, then you can't build a data
> > model for the document without reading the external subset.
>
> No, this isn't right at all. Skipped entity references are simply
> invisible
> to the data model, i.e. lost, just like anything else that's not
> significant
> in the data model. This is a very important distinction.
> Otherwise, it would
> be impossible to use a non-validating parser with XSLT.

More precisely, it would be impossible to use a non-validating parser that
meets the minimal conformance requirements for XML parsing.

Evan

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