ModSAX: Proposed Core Features
David Megginson
david at megginson.com
Fri Mar 12 18:03:06 GMT 1999
Simon St.Laurent writes:
> We need:
>
> http://xml.org/sax/features/external-subset
I agree that this functionality is required. The question is whether
there is a strong case for making inclusion of the external DTD subset
separately configurable from the inclusion of external parameter
entities in general.
I'd suggest not. Consider the following:
<!DOCTYPE doc [
<!-- other stuff -->
<!ENTITY % dtd SYSTEM "doc.dtd">
]>
and
<!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "doc.dtd" [
<!-- other stuff -->
]>
Except for the extra "%doc" entry in the entity name table, these two
document type declarations look to me to be exactly equivalent; as a
matter of fact, I've always considered the second to be simply a
short-hand for the first.
James Clark made a convincing case for separating the inclusion of
external general entities for the inclusion of external parameter
entities. Can anyone make a convincing case for separating the
inclusion of external parameter entities from the inclusion of the
external DTD subset?
Thanks, and all the best,
David
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