Elliotte, When XML pull parser came out, it didn't support DTD and external
references either,
to date, several XML pull implementation still do not support the full spec,
yet they call themselves
XML parsers, it seems to us that VTD-XML can do same thing??
Cheers,
jimmy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliotte Harold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: VTD-XML Version 1.5 Released
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Elliotte,
It is not doing things for the sake of doing it..
it is to do things where it makes sense, I think that
a large majority of XML related vocabularies do not
require entity references, SOAP also excludes DTD and
external references because of their performance drag,
so though not supporting external entities, we still
believe many people will find VTD-XML useful...
so it is not about making egregious shortcuts, it is
more like making sensible compromises.
numerical entities are supported.
If you're not supporting the *minimum* things required of an XML parser,
and have no intentions of doing so, then you shouldn't be using the name
XML for your product.
You further shouldn't make claims about speed until VTD-XML does correctly
implement XML. Over the last eight years, I have seen a lot of claims for
speed fall apart when the last 10% of features were implemented.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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