[Mono-devel-list] Re: valid-sa-100 testcase

[Eyal Alaluf]

Hi, Atsushi.

Would the use of a validating reader around XmlTextReader explain the
difference between the XmlDocument.Load and XmlTextReader?

Eyal.

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Atsushi Eno wrote:

> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 01:04:18 +0900
> From: Atsushi Eno <atsushi at ximian.com>
> To: Eyal Alaluf <eyala at mainsoft.com>
> Cc: Andrew Skiba <andrews at mainsoft.com>,
>      mono-devel mailing list <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Re: valid-sa-100 testcase
>
> Hi Eyal,
>
> > Just to set things straight. The patch was rejected since it was incomplete
> > caused regressions and you didn't like the approach. The lack of concrete
> > test case at the time that motivated the patch prevented us from continuing
> > the discussion at that time. Now that the lost test was found :-) we are
> > continuing the discussion.
>
> That is also true to me that I am not motivated for that problem.
> MS.NET is not also doing well on entity processing and I found no
> serious existing solutions, so I just kept away from it.
>
> > Now back to the test, how do you propose to fix the issue? What is your
> > analysis of the issue?
>
> Honestly, entity handling stuff is so minor that even MS.NET does
> not work fine (for example RDF DTD that Joshua posted could not
> be read fine), so am not fixing it soon. But of course I'd
> appreciate if you guys or anyone would fix the problem :-)
>
> > Regarding XmlDocument use, how do you think we should test it?
>  > When you changed xmltest.cs did you have cases where XmlDocument
>  > didn't work in Mono but worked in MS?
>
> I don't remember even whether I was aware of such differences or not.
> I was not always paying attention to MS.NET behavior (since there
> are many tests that .NET does not work fine). There are some cases
> that (at least) XmlTextReader.Read() and XmlDocument.Load() differ
> in rejecting input xml or not e.g. XmlDocument.Load() rejects
> undeclared entities while XmlTextReader does not.
>
> Atsushi Eno
>