Re: [xml-dev] Can XML documents have loops (cycles)?
Costello, Roger L. wrote: > So would it be accurate to say that: > > 1. XML documents may have loops (cycles). > > 2. XML parsers just report the loops; XML parsers do not traverse them. No. It would be accurate to say that XML can be used to represent languages that describe cyclic graphs (using id/idref or whatever custom semantics they want). As I said before, you can do the same thing with ASN.1 notation, this does not imply that ASN.1 streams have loops. -- Chris Burdess