xml-dev - Re: parsing entity values

["Chris Olds" <colds@nwlink.com>]

One nit:

Richard Tobin wrote (a helpful explanation, ending with):
>[...] but if we had:
>
><!ENTITY % less "&#38;#60;">
><!ENTITY % more "&#38;#62;">
><!ENTITY elt "%less;=%more;">
>
>the replacement text of elt would be
>
>  <=>
>
>not
>
>  &#60;=&#62;
>
>and should be detected as a syntax error if &elt; occurred in the
>body.


Actually, it's already a syntax error - Section 4.3.2 says that "An internal
parsed general entity is well-formed if its replacement text matches
<i>content</i>."  Do any of the available parsers indicate an error if &elt;
is not used in the document?

    /cco


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