Re: EntityResolver patch

"Karl Waclawek" <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:19:47 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.sax.devel
Message-ID <005901c42ae1$20e986c0$0200a8c0@karlglen188>

> This patch makes it clear that under no circumstances should the parser 
> call the EntityResolver for the top-level document entity. (Two version 
> of AElfred, though not GNU JAXP) currently get this wrong.

The question I have is not about clarifying it, which is good,
but about the reason for not allowing this in the first place.

Why should the entity resolver not be called on the document entity
if parse(systemId) is called?

Karl


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