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

[Atsushi Eno]

Hi Eyal,

Am not sure if I correctly understand your question (because I have
no idea how this Q is related to the topic and my answer). But maybe
I should answer "it depends" on the "difference".

Atsushi Eno

Eyal Alaluf wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
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