Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1

[Karl Eichwalder]

alex@gnu.org (Alex Schroeder) writes:

> I do not agree.  If you look at the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level
> 3 Core Specification",

You'd better check the XML specification.

> it specifically lists comments:
>
>     Object Comment
>          Comment has the all the properties and methods of the CharacterData
>          object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
>
> Comments are part of the parsed data.

Does this mean the XML parser is considered to resolve entities within
comments?  This would be weird.

> Perhaps they are not used by the application, but stripping them from
> the model would be the wrong thing to do.

No, this is the correct default behavior.  Maybe, there should be a
switch to pass through comments unmodified.

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