DOM: notations and unparsed entities

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Sun Mar 28 06:34:51 BST 1999


Ronald Bourret scripsit:

> 1) How do I determine if an attribute's value is a notation or unparsed 
> entity?  In the case of an unparsed entity, I'm guessing that the Attr node 
> has an EntityReference child (is this true?). Notations have me stumped.

You can't tell.  And no, the value of a NOTATION attribute is a string,
not an entity reference (which is used only when you have actual &...;
markup).  The DOM conceals the XML type of attributes, at least at
level 1.

> 2) Is there a general DOM mailing list?  The only one I could find was 
> www-dom at w3.org, which I assumed was for spec comments, not questions like 
> this.

It's for all DOM talk, including spec comments.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan at ccil.org
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