Re: [XBL] Conformance

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Ian Hickson:
> > Oh, I see what you're saying.
> > 
> > That's covered by DOM3 Core, which says "When an EntityReference node 
> > represents a reference to an unknown entity, the node has no children and 
> > its replacement value, when used by Attr.value for example, is empty".
> > 
> > See:
> > 
> >    http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-11C98490
> 
> Ok.  But does that not contradict with the statement
> 
>   If user agents do include entity reference nodes in the DOM, then user
>   agents must handle them as if they were fully expanded when
>   implementing this specification.
> 
> because if they were fully expanded, then it could have some text, and
> the xbl:attr="def=xbl:text" would behave differently?

Oh, I see the confusion. I'm reading "fully expanded" to mean "replaced by 
its DOM replacement value" and you're reading it to mean "replaced by its 
XML replacement value".

I've fixed the text accordingly.

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