Re: [xml-dev] External subset processing by browsers

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Andrew Welch wrote:

> Should this work? (maybe a problem with that verison of Xerces)   Or
> will it never work because of some fundamental dtd concept that
> sgml'ers all treat as common knowledge?    :)
> 


No, it shouldn't. The relevant spec text is:

In a document without any DTD, a document with only an internal DTD 
subset which contains no parameter entity references, or a document with 
"standalone='yes'", for an entity reference that does not occur within 
the external subset or a parameter entity, the Name given in the entity 
reference MUST match that in an entity declaration that does not occur 
within the external subset or a parameter entity, except that 
well-formed documents need not declare any of the following entities: 
amp, lt, gt, apos, quot. The declaration of a general entity MUST 
precede any reference to it which appears in a default value in an 
attribute-list declaration.


Your document doesn't have a DTD so it's malformed, no matter what 
parser reads it. :-(

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