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- From: Tony Graham <tgraham@mulberrytech.com>
- To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:48:50 -0400 (EST)
At 17 Nov 1999 10:24 -0500, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> Today I started using a validating parser on the source file and it is
> choking on the entity declaration.
>
> I immediately thought the new parser I was using was at fault, but thought
> I'd check XML 1.0 and saw that perhaps parameter entity references are not
> allowed according to the grammar:
...
> So, my question is: Does 4.4.8 take precedence over the grammar
> productions (the new parser is incorrect), or is the behaviour I am used to
> not correct (XT is incorrect)?
4.4.8 also says that "its replacement text is enlarged by the
attachment of one leading and one following space (#x20) character".
...
> T:\ftemp>type test.ent
> <!ENTITY % e "wmf"><!--non .gif extension-->
> <!NOTATION %e; SYSTEM "">
> <!ENTITY % filename "'abc.%e;'">
This evaluates to "'abc. wmf '". According to RFC 2396, spaces aren't
allowed in URIs. Perhaps the parser is giving a not very useful error
message in response to the spaces in the URI.
What happens when you use:
<!ENTITY % filename "'abc.wmf'">
Regards,
Tony Graham
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