On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 16:14 +0100, Chris Burdess wrote:
> No general purpose XML tool will ever encounter anything cyclic in
> your document.
Assuming it's well-formed XML, and you are working with the output of
the XML parser, that's true.
You can encounter some (erroneous) loops with entity definitions.
Also, since the XML specification *does* define id/idref pointers, it's
fair to note that id/idref pointer chains can form loops.
Liam
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