- From: Lauren Wood <lauren@sqwest.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 07:39:21 -0800
- To: www-dom@w3.org
On 28 Jul 98, at 19:06, KAZUMI Saito wrote: > > I have a question about interface EntityReference. > > EntityReference definition has following sentence. (on WD-DOM > -19980720) > > -- > The replacement value, if it is available, will appear > in the child list of the EntityReference. > -- > > If two or more entity references which reference same entity > appered in one document, many copies of replacement value are > created in the DOM object tree? Two are created in the logical DOM object tree. You may, of course, come up with some efficient implementation-specific sharing mechanism but when the user walks the tree past the EntityReference, they will see an Entity for each EntityReference. Lauren
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