Re: [xml-dev] DTD parameter entities

[richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)]

>This would be well-formed, but not valid, I believe:
>  <!%ATTLIST; %ELEMNAME;%ATTNAME; CDATA #FIXED "value"%CLOSE;
>since now the references are not in the position of a DeclSep.

>What sense would that difference make?

No sense, it's just because BNF works forwards.

If you wrote a BNF for backwards-XML, ;ESOLC% would be in a peSlceD
and < would not :-)

-- Richard