• To: "Jeff Rafter" <jeffrafter@d...>,"Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Entity declarations and non-validating parsers
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:56:57 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <1234642.1045878962142.JavaMail.jje@u...> <3E582AF9.70009@s...> <070501c2db4a$45a52970$22ecd90c@c1980223a> <000701c2db65$2e96f4a0$0207a8c0@karl> <p04330105ba7ecfa897bb@[192.168.254.4]> <001d01c2dbb2$91ec4f80$22ecd90c@c1980223a>

> > Interesting. Looking at the spec, I only see one such validity
> > constraint that would seem to apply:
> >
> > Validity constraint: Entity Declared
> 
> AElfred2 was written originally by David Megginson and rewritten by David
> Brownell-- so it is probably the best/reference implementation of SAX in the
> wild (or not so wild as the case may be). As I recall, against the XML test
> collections (now housed at the W3C?) of the primary tests only one VC was
> not passed by AElfred2.

Jeff,

the claim I made (based on user feedback for Expat) was that validation
*on top of SAX* is a problem, not validation within a SAX parser.

Karl

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