RE: Anothe question on entity referencing from within an attribut e

["DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" <bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com>]

>I have another question on entity referencing being referenced from within
>an attribute:
>
>For eg:  in the DTD, name is defined as follows:
>
>!ENTITY name "<a><b>cool</b></a>"
>
>In my xml file I have the following
>
><root>
><this>charlie="very&name;too"
></root>

Assuming you mean <this charlie="very&name;too"/>, you can't, because then
the document isn't well-formed. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#CleanAttrVals.

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