>>My conception of Well-Formedness has always been along the lines of >>"you can build the right parse tree". Now, we have partially ducked >>that by saying that you don't have to fetch & parse external text entities; >>but you do have to know what the reference is pointing at. > >Fine. My point is that even if entities are "missing", the result of a >parse should be "well-formed" (ie. the tree is correct except for the >missing nodes). What's the difference between not seeing the entities and switching off the images on Netscape? I normally run my HTML browser without illustrations for performance reasons. I could equally well envisage having the option as to whether or not to resolve linked entities on my XML browser. ---- Martin Bryan, The SGML Centre, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 WWW home page: http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/Received on Thursday, 30 January 1997 14:43:30 EST
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