- From: Markku Savela <msa@msa.tte.vtt.fi>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:54:19 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-lib@w3.org
- Cc: msa@msa.tte.vtt.fi
I may be missing something obvious, but I suddenly noticed that the wwwlib SGML.c model does not support at all entities in attribute values. The current model in SGML is to generate start_element, end_element, entity and content calls to upstream. This model does not fit at all, if the entiry appears inside an attribute value, which should already have been parsed by the time start_element occurs? I think the entity upstream call is a misdesign and should be removed. The SMGL.c (or equivalent) needs to "unpack" entities itself. For ISO 8859-1 characters this doesn't appear to be a problem, but I am wondering how the problem is solved for entities that don't map into ISO 8859-1 character sequences? Any ideas? (Has this been discussed to the death somewhere already?) -- Markku Savela (msa@hemuli.tte.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland Multimedia Systems, P.O.Box 1203,FIN-02044 VTT,http://www.vtt.fi/tte/staff/msa/
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