> In the current DOM spec, in the table for NodeValues, the Entity node
> should return null for its node value. Shouldn't it return the value of
> the entity or in the case the entity has not been expanded then return
> null?
The value of an entity appears as the children of the
Entity node. This can be arbitrarily complex, with Text nodes or Element nodes
or whatever (see the draft); it doesn't make sense to capture it as
a "value" string.
> Really, an entity with just a name, but no data associated with it is
> pretty useless unless the entity is an external parsed entity where the
> system id and notation name actually have some real relevance.
Agreed.
-- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.