- From: Arnold, Curt <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:08:20 -0600
- To: "'www-dom@w3.org'" <www-dom@w3.org>
Elena Litani in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts/2002Apr/0088.html, observed that several tests in the DOM L1 test suite that use createEntityReference() would fail if the test document was loaded with the "entities" normalization feature set to false. On reviewing the normalization features, there does not seem to be the equivalent of JAXP's javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setExpandEntityReferences(true) or Xerces-C's default behavior. That is a mode that would expand entity references, but preserve entity nodes. I don't see a strong use case for eliminating unreferenced entity nodes and there does not seem to be a parallel normalization to eliminate unreferenced notation declarations or unreferenced element definitions in ASLS. Even if there were, I would then suggest that there should still be an equivalent of the currently deployed behavior.
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