> From: Raul Miller <[email protected]>
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
> >> From: Raul Miller
> >
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
> >> > Separating entities is the behavior of SAX.
> >> > However, entities are stitched automatically for attributes.
> >> > Automated handling in text nodes would be too specific.
> >>
> >> I do not understand?
> >
> > Because attribute value is atomic.
>
> In what sense are attribute values
> atomic but entities not atomic?
This is a good question for an XML or SAX forum.
What's important here is whether xml/sax addon
deviates from SAX itself. I double-checked and in
the part of "characters" call-back and entities,
it does not.
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