RE: record ends in entities and xincludes

Thanks, Daniel.  You're response lead me to the right issue
and solution.

paul 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:daniel@veillard.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 2006 April 04 03:26
> To: Grosso, Paul
> Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: record ends in entities and xincludes
> 
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:54:45PM -0400, Grosso, Paul wrote:
> > doc.xml
> > -------
> > <!DOCTYPE doc [ 
> > <!ENTITY annoying SYSTEM "ent.xml"> 
> > ]>
> > <doc>
> > <p>This is &annoying;.</p>
> > <p>This is also <xi:include href="ent.xml"/>.</p>
> > </doc>
> >  
> > ent.xml
> > -------
> > an annoying problem
> 
>   Your question is ambiguous. Is ent.xml terminated by a 
> linefeed or not ?
> I can't tell from the mail. You can have files with or without it, and
> since white spaces are significant, an XML parser won't invent them if
> they are not there. So depending on ent.xml content you will 
> or will not
> get a linefeed before the final stop.
> 
> > Is there supposed to be a linefeed preceding the 
> > period (aka full stop) following the entity reference 
> > and xinclude or not?  
> > 
> > And whatever the answer is, how do you get the other 
> > behavior if that's what you want instead?
> 
>   change the file of the entity content accordingly to the 
> need. It may
> be difficult in a text editor, but it's an UI problem, not a 
> processing
> problem IMHO.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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