[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] XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
