• From: Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@c...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:29:06 -0400

Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...> wrote on 10/31/2011 03:59:38 PM:

> > 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.

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