[dsdl-discuss] Re: Emailing: dsdl-8.pdf

Martin,

I am sorry for my late comments. I have suffered from sinusitis after
I came back from Oslo.

XML has two types of entities: parsed and unparsed. It should be made
clear that unparsed entities are outside the scope of DSRL.

Furthermore, parsed entities are either internal or external. In the
definition of the XML recommendation, references to internal parsed
entities are always recognized whenever they are syntactially recognized
and the entity replacement texts are included. It should be made
clear that internal parsed entities are also outside the scope of DSRL.

I do not understand "the corresponding Entity node's child list within
the DOM stream" in the first note in Section 4.

Who creates the file "MappedEntities.ent" shown in the Annex B? Is this
created by some program that implements the second step in the
processing model in Section 4?

I believe that the only way to implement the second step n the
processing model is to modify exsiting XML processors. This step is not
impossible, but I strongly doubt if it is implemented. For this reason,
Japan has always casted a negative vote to DSRL. At this state of the
game, however, I would like to suggest a compromise. The second step
should be optional: conformant implementations are allowed to ignore the
second step.

I do not understand how the XSLT 2.0 stylesheet shown in Appendix B
recognizes entity references. Section 4 of XSLT 2.0 clearly says:

        Features of a source XML document that are not represented in the XDM tree
        will have no effect on the operation of an XSLT stylesheet.
        Examples of such features are entity references, CDATA sections,
        character references, whitespace within element tags, and the
        choice of single or double quotes around attribute values.

Regards,

-- 
MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
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