- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:18:07 -0400
- To: jjc@jclark.com
- CC: crm@ebt.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>If the rules about ignoring white-space are left to the XML application and >the application is free to require that those rules are not applied for >verbatim elements, then XML tools built on top of SGML parsers will be >unable to correctly process some XML documents, namely those that have >verbatim elements that include REs that are ignored according to the SGML >rules. This is only true if the record ends occur in the input. If a suitable declaration is given (ie, one in which RE and RE never occur) then an SGML parser and an XML parser should return identical parse results.
Received on Friday, 27 September 1996 17:19:49 UTC