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Sean McGrath wrote: > [Walter Perry] > >An XML-compliant parser *must* not turn an XML instance into any one > particular > >output. Production [1] is the syntactic criterion that *input* to an XML > parser > >must meet to be accepted as a document, which the Rec requires. Nothing in > that > >production (nor in any other) says anything about the form of output that a > >parser must give to an entity matching this definition of document. > > There are plenty of occurences of "may/may not/must pass X to the application" > in the spec. which surely say something about the form of output that a parser > must give? Indeed. The BNF productions, on the other hand, parameterize the parser in its job of determining conformance of an input XML instance, I think. Respectfully, Walter Perry
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