Re: Draft - Fixup or Full XML Parser

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 11:38 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
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> I think it's important that an ER parser produces the same infoset as
> an XML parser for all WF XML documents that don't have an internal or
> external subset.

+1

> I'd like it to be true for *all* WF XML documents, but I can imagine
> that we might decide that the ER parser doesn't handle every possible
> peculiarity of DTD parsing.

Right; fetching a DTD is the only plausible way to recover from
undefined entities, for example.

Liam

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Received on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 18:42:23 UTC