xml-dev - RE: Query about doc well-formedness

[Peter Jones <peterj@wrox.com>]

I'm not quite sure if you're agreeing with me here so I'll run through
the process as I see it and you can correct my mistakes:
i)
I have a well-formed document thus:
<root>
	<text> Blah blah blah &ent1; </text>
	&ent2;
</root>

&ent1; and &ent2; are by definition parsed entities. But within the
above document there is no indication as to whether the 'contents' of
the entity (the substitution which occurs at parse time) are
well-formed.
So 
Q1) will a non-validating parser flag an error when it encounters either
of the entity references above?
My thinking here is that it should, as parsing means that the
substitution should occur. Am I wrong here? 

So 
(ii) in order to avoid the referencing problem I put <!ENTITY....>
declarations in the doc above to provide the 'answers' to the entity
references.
Q2) Will a non-validating parser know how to deal with such <!ENTITY...>
declarations and thus not flag errors on the entity references at parse
time? I.e. will I avoid being forced to use a validating parser to deal
with the document.

 regards,

Peter Jones
WebDev Technical Editor
Wrox Press
mailto:peterj@wrox.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Henry S. Thompson [SMTP:ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 25, 1998 2:03 PM
> To:	Peter Jones
> Subject:	RE: Query about doc well-formedness
> 
> Ah, I see a source of your confusion.  PARSED entity doesn't
> necessarily mean VALIDATED, just processed as XML as the processor is
> processing XML in the matrix document, so in the case of a
> well-formedness-checking-only processor, PARSED means well-formed.
> 
> ht

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