- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:25:30 +0000
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 17:18 27/09/96 -0400, Gavin Nicol wrote: >>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. I explained in an earlier message <URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-sgml-wg/msg00243.html> (mainly paragraph 2) why I believe that view to be mistaken. James
Received on Saturday, 28 September 1996 05:31:16 UTC