Re: Question external entities and relative URis

[Karl Fischer <karlfischer@gmx.com>]

David Carlisle <davidc <at> nag.co.uk> writes:

> 
> On 14/07/2010 09:40, Karl Fischer wrote:
> >   won't any relative URIs in them be interpreted as being relative
> > to the URI of the DTD and not URI of the entity file they were declared in?
> >
> 
> No the inclusion mechanism is supposed to "remember" the URI where the 
> inclusion came from and resolve relative links within that scope 
> accordingly.
> 
> David

So that means that external entities can't just be included into the document
and parsed as if they were part of it and instead need separate, special parsing
to keep track of the URIs?