From: "Volkmann, Mark" Date: 2004-01-08T05:27:14+09:00 Subject: Re: rexml and external entities ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3D55C.299CF2C8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > -----Original Message----- > From: ser@germane-software.com [mailto:ser@germane-software.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:32 PM > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org > Subject: Re: rexml and external entities > > > Clifford Heath wrote in > message news:... > > The rexml included with 1.8-preview3 doesn't expand > external entities. > > Has this been added in a more recent version, or is it > otherwise planned? > > Otherwise how may I expand them? > > REXML is not a validating parser, and therefore is not required to > expand external entities. REXML may expand external entities in the > future, but I wouldn't hold your breath. It's too bad those two things ... entity expansion and validation ... got tied together since they are really separate things. Entity expansion gets used as an include mechanism. It's easy to see how one might want to use that, but not care about validation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.G. Edwards & Sons' outgoing and incoming e-mails are electronically archived and subject to review and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3D55C.299CF2C8--