Re: [xml-dev] XML parser model, when are &foo; inserted?

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ольга крыжановская <>
To
Michael Kay <>
Date
2012-12-03T23:19:52Z
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Re: [xml-dev] XML parser model, when are &foo; inserted?
Michael, how does nesting work? Can I just take the text of &foo;,
expand that until I run out of &...; parts and insert the result in
the text stream?

Olga

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Michael Kay <> wrote:
>
> On 03/12/2012 18:17, ольга крыжановская wrote:
>>
>> Does any one have a XML parser layering model which (visually) shows
>> when &foo; entities are inserted?
>>
>> Olga
>
> It would be nice if it were nicely layered like that, but especially when it
> comes to parameter entities, it isn't. It's all horribly recursive. For
> example, you can't just expand &foo; to assemble a character stream, and
> then parse the stream -- elements have to be properly nested within entity
> boundaries, so the layers are deeply entangled.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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