- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:09:07 -0500
- To: www-dom@w3.org
At 8:39 AM -0500 3/14/02, Ray Whitmer wrote: In real use cases, forcing the user to expand them before he uses XPath seems very much like deprecating them. It assumes there is no need for the user to keep the entity reference nodes in the tree during and after XPath processing. It's not deprecation. XPath 1.0 is quite clear that entity references must be expanded. Section 5.2 of the XPath spec states, "Entity references to both internal and external entities are expanded. Character references are resolved." Unexpanded entity references were never allowed in XPath in the first place so they can't be deprecated now. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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