SAX RFD: ModSAX Predefined Features

James Clark jjc at jclark.com
Mon Mar 8 02:03:56 GMT 1999


David Megginson wrote:

> 2. http://xml.org/sax/features/external-entities
>   True means expand external text entities, false means don't expand
>   external text entities.

I would suggest distinguishing the expansion of external parameter
entities (which would include the external DTD subset) from the
expansion of external general entities.  I can easily imagine wanting to
expand external general entities declared in the internal subset, but
not wanting to read an external DTD.

James



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