Re: Attribute values with unresolved entities

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <[email protected]>
To: "Karl Waclawek" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 3:11 AM


> At 6:53 PM -0400 4/25/04, Karl Waclawek wrote:
> 
> >I can agree with that too, but since the XML spec does not require it,
> >SAX should not require it either.
> 
> If SAX only requires what the XML spec requires, it would require 
> very little. For instance, the XML spec does not require that 
> processors report element names. I think it is important that SAX 
> require all missing entities to be reported.

The spec may not require reporting element names simply because
it is a valid use case to just check for well-formedness or validity.
However, the spec is quite specific with regards to error reporting.

Karl





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