Michael Smith wrote:
>>It surely does. Out of the three tools you pointed out, this one runs
>>the fastest. Blisteringly so, in fact. As with everything, however,
>>there is a trade-off -- the minimum possible output size is double that
>>of flatten running in default mode.
>>
>
>hmm, I believe that is in part because it is expanding all the
>content models (that is, replacing all parameter entities with
>what they expand out to). There seems to be no way to prevent it
>from doing that (the --output-pe-decls option appears not to
>prevent it at least).
>
>Using the --strip-comments option will make it a bit smaller,
>though.
>
The output size I referred to was generated using the options '--strip
comments' and '--output-whitespace:minimum'.
>>>And it can handle entities that have system IDs with remote URIs.
>>>
>>Not on my system, it couldn't
>>
>
>Actually, what I meant was that it could handle remote system IDs
>that occur within a DTD.
>
Oops. Memo to self: do not speed read emails.
Regards,
David.
