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   Re: [xml-dev] Allowed PEReference usages

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>>| Assuming that it is possible to declare a PE named 'percent' with a 
>>| literal '%', is the following allowed?
>>| 
>>| <!ENTITY %percent; x "value">
>>
>>Permissible in SGML - should be okay in XML.
> 
> 
> Accepted by MSXML4.
> 
> Rejected by 
> - Expat: "Unclosed token" 
>   (it seems Expat considers % followed by a name one token)

That's a bug in expat I think.  Try this (tested with expat 1.2):

--- xmltok/xmltok_impl.c        20 Oct 2000 04:17:27 -0000      1.42
+++ xmltok/xmltok_impl.c        3 Jul 2003 02:08:48 -0000
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@
                         const char **nextTokPtr)
  {
    if (ptr == end)
-    return XML_TOK_PARTIAL;
+    return -XML_TOK_PERCENT;
    switch (BYTE_TYPE(enc, ptr)) {
    CHECK_NMSTRT_CASES(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr)
    case BT_S: case BT_LF: case BT_CR: case BT_PERCNT:

James





 

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