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where does the parsing stop and the processing begin? Ahh, I've been wondering about that my entire life.... "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Toby Considine TC9, Inc TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar TC Editor: EMIX, EnergyInterop U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee Email: Toby.Considine@g... Phone: (919)619-2104 http://www.tcnine.com/ blog: www.NewDaedalus.com -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@g...] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 7:22 PM To: Michael Glavassevich Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: 15 elementary truths about XML >> > 6. XML processors always interpret the bytes in XML files as characters. >> > >> > 7. Thus, XML processors interpret XML files as a sequence of characters. >> >> XML parsers right? The 'processor' is the thing that processes what >> the parser reports... > > Terminology: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-xml-proc > > The 'processor' is the thing that reads an XML document and makes its > content available to an 'application'. An XML parser is an XML processor. Ah ok, thanks for the link. Do you know why it's 'processor' over just 'parser', is it DTD related? Or put another way - where does the parsing stop and the processing begin? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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