"The distinction is syntactic, not semantic. Nothing that's looking at
the semantic content of XML documents should care about it... and
nothing should be looking at the purely syntactic details of XML except
the parser. "
True. And from that point of view, what I am working on is, in fact, and
kind of parser, albiet a very specialized one. One of the things my
parser needs to do is detect the presence of these character references.
I need to distinguish between A and a letter A character. Now I
could go and write the code to do this, but I thought since Xerces must
already have a way of doing this, I'd go ahead and use that instead.
I imagine that there is a callback method somewhere in the XNI API that
handles the translation of these references into their "normative"
representation.
As regards the correctness of my design, all I can say is that I've have
given it quite a lot of thought, and I'm confident that my solution it
the best option available to me. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to
go into a lot of detail. While I do appreciate any and all advice, be it
theoretical or otherwise, what I really need is a practical solution!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> & might be treated as being the same as &, but these are both
> distinct from ordinary text
As far as XML is concerned, neither is "distinct from ordinary text"
-- they're just representations of the & character.
For comparison, consider A. XML doesn't distinguish between this
and a simple capital-A character.
The distinction is syntactic, not semantic. Nothing that's looking at
the semantic content of XML documents should care about it... and
nothing should be looking at the purely syntactic details of XML
except the parser.
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