- From: Christopher R. Maden <crm@ebt.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:12:35 GMT
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
[Jon Bosak] > [Chris Maden:] > > | 3) A dichotomy between "DTD-ful" and DTD-less parsing will make any > | sibling-based relationship difficult at best; this will affect some > | TEI or HyQ based hyperlinks, as well as sibling-based stylistic > | decisions. > > Sorry to be so slow here, but what's the connection with sibling > relationships? My idea of a well-formed XML document is one for > which there is just one possible tree structure; what's different > about sibling relationships if a DTD is provided? TEI and, I believe, HyQ, use sibling relationships for addressing; e.g., start at the element whose SGML ID is "foo" and traverse three nodes to the right. If DTD-less parsing creates spurious CDATA nodes, then the target of an address can be different from that for a DTD-ful parse. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//GCA//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//EBT//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" SYSTEM "<URL>http://www.ebt.com <TEL>+1.401.421.9550 <FAX>+1.401.521.2030 <USMAIL>One Richmond Square, Providence, RI 02906 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
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