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I believe parser A is correct and parser B is not. We currently do not
handle this case correctly in the most recent versions of MSXML. The XML
parser in the System.Xml namespace of the .NET Framework handles this
correctly.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Ransom [mailto:Doug.Ransom@pwrm.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 2:43 PM
> To: Xml-Dev@Lists. Xml. Org (E-mail)
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> I have one parser ("A") that loads the document inline below,
> and one that does not (B);
>
> B returns an error message "Reference to undeclared
> namespace prefix: 'xsl'. Error processing resource
> 'file:///D:/junk/foo.xml'. Line 1, Position 43 " due to the
> use of a namespace within an entity definition.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE
> xsl:stylesheet [
> <!-- Namespaces -->
> <!ENTITY xsl "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <!-- Match strings -->
> <!ENTITY CopyAttsAndNodes
> "<xsl:apply-templates select='node()|@*' />"> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="&xsl;"> &CopyAttsAndNodes;
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Note the above sample is intended to be good xml, not
> necessarily good xslt. I ripped it out of a working XSLT.
> Note both parsers are capable of expanding internal entity
> references -- only when the prefix is included above does B
> run into problems.
>
> I am leaning towards believing parser A behaving correctly,
> because the infoset is the tree created after the entity
> references have been expanded; the entities in the DOCTYPE
> section should be namespace unaware (i.e. just text).
>
>
>
> Doug Ransom
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