Re: REC-xml-19980210: whitespace

Paul Prescod (papresco@technologist.com)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:52:27 -0400


Richard Emberson wrote:
>
> > a single #x20
> is appended for a "#xD#xA" sequence that is part of an external
> parsed entity or the literal entity value of an internal parsed
> entity"
>
> Section 4.4, Processor Treatment of Entities and References,
> seems to indicate that in a "Reference in Attribute Value" only
> an Internal General Enitity is included (Included in literal).
> An external parsed entity is Forbidden. How can whitespace from
> an external parsed entity be normalized in an attribute value
> as suggested by Section 3.3.3?

This seems like a buglet to me.

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