- From: Mike Champion <mcc@arbortext.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:48:27 -0400
- To: "Jeff" <jmackay@enteract.com>, <www-dom@w3.org>
At 12:32 AM 4/29/98 -0400, Jeff wrote: >Another weak point in the spec is with entities. The current model allows >an entity declaration to have a replacement string or a replacement >substring. Period. What about the public/system identifiers (which may be >necessary for implementations to perform "lazy" evaluations of an external >entity), the notation, etc. You're right; the EntityDeclaration object needs the public and system identifiers. It shall be proposed to the WG ... It may also make sense to include an enum that >provides information about the type of entity: INTERNAL, EXTERNAL, PARSED, >UNPARSED, etc. As I understand it, internal entities are expanded by an XML processor, so the DOM never sees them. You're right about needing a Parsed/Unparsed attribute; this was apparently discussed at last week's WG meeting. Mike Champion
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