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   Re: Are entities containing mark-up allowed in attribute values?

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  • From: tpassin@home.com
  • To: xml-dev@xml.org
  • Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:30:25 -0400

Rob Lugt got a number of answers to his question:

>Are entities containing mark-up allowed in attribute values?

>For example, is the following document well-formed?

><?xml version="1.0"?>
><!DOCTYPE message [
><!ENTITY greet "<greeting>Hi</greeting>">
>]>
><!--Atribute value has an entity reference: &greet; which contains
mark-up! -->
><message value="&greet;"/>

>If not, can somebody point out where in the XML 1.0 spec this is mandated?

More light is shed on this if the Annotated SML spec at

http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm

Look at section 3.1.  Tim Bray spells out what these restrictions are there
for.

Tom Passin





 

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