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xeCondSection

xeCondSection = 5

Example​

function IsConditionalSectionKind(Kind: TsdElementType): Boolean;
begin
  Result := Kind = xeCondSection;
end;

Usage​

xeCondSection names Velox XML's intended DTD conditional-section kind, which the text parser does not recognise and its class does not report correctly.

Additional Technical Info​

xeCondSection is intended to represent a DTD INCLUDE or IGNORE conditional section. In this NativeXML 4.07 implementation it is effectively a broken/reserved enum value rather than a reliably observable text-document node kind.

Exact implementation defects

  • ReadOpenTag recognises <![CDATA[ but has no branch for <![INCLUDE[ or <![IGNORE[. Text parsing reports an illegal/unsupported construct instead of creating this type.
  • The mapped TsdConditionalSection class inherits TsdComment and does not override ElementType. An instance of that class therefore returns xeComment.
  • Binary reading can create TsdConditionalSection when ordinal 5 is present, but the object immediately reports Comment. A later binary save writes the reported comment ordinal, so the conditional-section identity collapses.
  • Script factories expose only normal element creation; they cannot construct a conditional-section node directly.

Do not write production logic that expects Node.ElementType = xeCondSection for ordinary XML input. Treat the value as evidence of the vendor model's intended vocabulary, not evidence that the feature works. If DTD conditional sections matter, reject them before this parser or use a parser with tested DTD support.

The example compares an enum value only. It does not imply that a normal Velox parse will return the value.

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Created 2026-07-15