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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, xml-dev <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:38:31 -0800
At 01:07 PM 3/11/00 -0800, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>However a trick I picked up from the MathML 2.0 DTD is to use double
>indirection like this:
><!ENTITY % rd-prefix "rd">
><!ENTITY % rd-colon ":">
><!ENTITY % rd-test "%rd-colon;%rd-prefix;test">
><!ELEMENT %rd-test; (#PCDATA)>
>This works but for the life of me I can't see why. How come the rd-test
>entity is defined as "rd:test" instead of " rd : test"? Can anyone
>justify this behavior in terms of the spec?
Also, check section 4.5, which goes into detail, and the commentary on that
in the annotated spec. And for real world-class sleaze, see appendix D.
-Tim
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