DOM Entity Value?

[John Cowan]

Tyler Baker scripsit:

> In the current DOM spec, in the table for NodeValues, the Entity node
> should return null for its node value.  Shouldn't it return the value of
> the entity or in the case the entity has not been expanded then return
> null?

The value of an entity appears as the children of the
Entity node.  This can be arbitrarily complex, with Text nodes or Element nodes
or whatever (see the draft); it doesn't make sense to capture it as
a "value" string.

> Really, an entity with just a name, but no data associated with it is
> pretty useless unless the entity is an external parsed entity where the
> system id and notation name actually have some real relevance.

Agreed.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan at ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

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