[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  2005-12-13 15:07 -------
> by reference to section 2.13
grr sorry about that, before posting I read that (but read the wrong bit of the
xml spec by mistake) I know it's W3C house style, but the practice of linking to
the reference list at the end of the current document rather than directly
linking to the correct section of an external document is _so_ annoying/confusing. 

> I think we're only concerned with one parsed entity,
as I say that depends just how far out of scope are references to parsed
entities generated by character maps. The note in section 9 warning that
character maps can result in non-wellformed documents could perhaps be extended
to say that they can also make the resulting document not conform to whatever
unicode normalisation form is specified.

As far as 4 and 5 on the list, they are also a bit questionable, as list-typed
content (eg IDREFS) is a white space list of Name tokens, so arguably they each
need to be checked individually (although conversely, arguably the serialiser
doesn't know that the element or attribute is so typed...) I don't mind either
way, but I can't tell from the spec. I suspect that the answer is that the
serialisation doesn't need to check individual tokens in a list, but that a 
validating parser which choses to warn of normalistion errors _will_ warn
when reading the resulting document if tokens are not in normal form.

David

Received on Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:07:34 UTC