RE: EntityReference from Gavin Thomas Nicol on 1998-07-28 (www-dom@w3.org from July to September 1998)

From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:01:09 -0700
To: "KAZUMI Saito" <ksaito@flab.fujitsu.co.jp>, <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000d01bdba5a$14e5f640$577670c6@endymion.eps.inso.com>

> 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?

Not necessarily, though it should *appear* as though there are
many copies.

Changes to the Entity in the DocumentType object should be
reflected throughout the tree.

Received on Tuesday, 28 July 1998 12:01:50 UTC