- From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:07:30 GMT
- To: Martin Gudgin <marting@develop.com>
- Cc: www-xml-infoset-comments@w3.org, w3c-xml-core-wg@w3.org
>Section 2.6 - Character Information Items. In the description of the parent >property refers to the [children] property of 'element, attribute and >namespace attribute' information items. This is stale text. It should say "[children] property of element information items". >Also, given that there is no 'children' property I'm not clear how I could >'navigate' the Infoset and get to the CIIs that make up the value of an AII. You can't. You just get the normalized text as a string. The advantages of having text as characters (as in elements) are to allow other things - entity boundaries for example - to be interspersed between them, and to allow properties on the characters (element-content whitespace is the only one we have). For attributes, only the entity boundaries are relevant, and we concluded that normalization of attributes makes it impossible to assign characters in the normalized value to entities in the original, even though the DOM tries to do it. -- Richard
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