- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:33:38 -0600
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, "public-xml-core-wg@w3.org" <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:41:24 +0100, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote: >> >>> Simon Pieters scripsit: >>> >>>> What is being discussed is not adding predefined entities. What is being >>>> discussed is making certain doctypes map to DTDs that contain just entity >>>> declarations (which is what Firefox, WebKit and Opera do today). >>> >>> Well, any non-validating parser is free to do that today. (It's not quite >>> clear to me from the XML Rec whether a validating parser is compelled >>> to actually read an external DTD subset, or whether it may simply assume >>> what it contains.) >>> >>> The downside is that some non-validating parsers, those that do not read >>> the external subset, will reject the document as not well-formed. >> >> Or they can fail to expand the entities without a fatal error (like Opera >> does). Either way, this is exactly the issue. If I understand Alexey >> correctly, he wants to remove the downside by having a requirement that UAs >> have the mapping for a handful of doctypes. >> >> -- >> Simon Pieters >> Opera Software >> >> > > Oops, again. Opera does generate an XML parsing failure when it comes > across an undefined entity when using the XHTML5 doctype. > > It's only with Henri's test, with the bogus DTD that Opera fails. > > Shelley > > Shelley > And another correction: I referenced unparsed when I meant undefined entities. Sorry for any confusion I may have evoked. Shelley
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