Re: Draft - Fixup or Full XML Parser

David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com> writes:
>> > 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.
>
> To me, this is an argument in favor of the idea that from a specs
> perspective the "ER XML Parser" is not necessarily a full XML parser.
> And thus *may not be* a drop-in replacement for a full XML parser in all use cases.
> Am I reading that wrong ? 

I don't think so. Time will tell how big a gap "may not be" leaves.

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                                          norm

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