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- From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 97 15:49:47 BST
Michael said:
> ><!ENTITY % animal-friends-content
> > " ( pet | cat | dog %extra-animal-friends-content )* "
> >
> >so that you could do
> >
> ><!ENTITY % extra-animal-friends-content '| stick-insect'>
> >
> >[Note this is not valid XML, I don't think]
>
> I believe it is valid XML, at least according to the spec of early
> August. The internal subset cannot have parameter entity references,
> but there's no rule against parameter entity declarations in the
> internal subset.
Michael is absolutely correct -- I was confusing ENTITY definitions
with CONTENT model definitions. One of the non-obvious consequences
of the current (8879-inherited) situation is that the above is OK, but
the following isn't:
<!ELEMENT animal-friends ( pet | cat | dog %extra-animal-friends-content )*>
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