xml-dev - Re: Questions on XML syntax and conformance issues

[richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)]

In article <XFMail.000308214413.morus.walter@gmx.de>,
Morus Walter <morus.walter@gmx.de> wrote:

>> It's invalid in SGML
>> because the result of expanding a character entity is treated as
>> character data and not as SPACE.

>So you would say, that `a&#32;b' should be invalid too?

As far as SGML goes, it seems to be valid (at least, nsgmls accepts
it; I don't have The Book here).  The point about it not matching SPACE
means that it doesn't get the normalise-to-" " applied to it, but
(unlike #10) it's " " already.

-- Richard
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