- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:28:20 +0100
- To: "John Cowan" <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: "public-xml-core-wg@w3.org" <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
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
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