[Bug 2474] [SER] Can fully-normalized be implemented?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2474





------- Additional Comments From davidc@nag.co.uk  2005-12-09 10:18 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> But that's not full normalization, it's just NFC, as according to the definition
> it subsumes include normalization.

I agree with you (but I'm not in the WG as you know). I don't think the
serialiser can guarantee full normalisation. Apart from xinclude, there may be
entity references (from character maps, or html known entities) that the
serialiser doesn't really have full control over, and it may be impossible
to fully normalise without either expanding the reference or modifying the
referenced entity, or by modifying the tree (eg putting a space before an entity
reference if the character before it could possibly be affected by normalisation
with a character at the start of a referenced entity)

David

Received on Friday, 9 December 2005 10:18:38 UTC