dxml 0.2.0 released

[Patrick Schluter]

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 22:00:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 21:18:12 Patrick Schluter via 
> Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Well, if dxml just passes the entity references along unparsed 
> beyond validating that the entity reference itself contains 
> valid characters (e.g. it's not something like &.; or & by 
> itself), then dxml would still not be replacing the entity 
> references with anything. Any security or performance problems 
> associated with entity references would be left up to whatever 
> parser parsed the DTD section and then used dxml to parse the 
> rest of the XML and replaced the entity references in dxml's 
> parsing results with whatever they were.
>
> The big problem is how the entity references affect the 
> parsing. If start tags can be dropped in and affect the parsing 
> (and it's still not clear to me from the spec whether that's 
> legal - there is a section talking about being nested properly 
> which might indicate that that's not legal, but it's not very 
> specific or clear), and if it's legal to do something like use 
> an entity reference for a tag name - e.g. <&foo;>, then that's 
> a serious problem. And problems like that are the main reason 
> why I completely dropped any attempt to do anything with the 
> DTD section.
>
Yikes! In any case, even if I had to implement a parser I would 
tend to not implement this "feature" as it sounds quite 
unreasonable. Only if a real need (i.e. one in the real world, 
not one that could be contrived out of the specs) arises would I 
then potentially implement the real deal.