- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:18:41 -0500
- To: "Falk, Alexander" <falk@icon.at>, "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>, xml-dev@xml.org, xml-editor@w3.org, "'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org'" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: > > "Falk, Alexander" wrote: [...] > > The problem is this - section 4.4.8 explicitely says: > > > > When a parameter-entity reference is recognized in the DTD and > > included, its replacement text is enlarged by the attachment of > > one leading and one following space (#x20) character; the intent > > is to constrain the replacement text of parameter entities to > > contain an integral number of grammatical tokens in the DTD. > > > > This section has also never been corrected by any errata (to the best of our > > knowledge) and the annotated XML specs also don't mention a word about it > > other than pointing at the SGML history issues. > > And yet none of the software I'm aware of follows this part of the > spec. I'm copying xml-editor, since this is clearly a discrepancy > between the XML 1.0 spec and implementations. Oops... perhaps not so clearly after all. Thanks for the references, Simon... |We went over this in April - you might take a look at the thread at: |http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/2000/04/thread.html#397 | |especially: |http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/2000/04/0399.html -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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