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Re: [xml-dev] Why the double escape for lt ? (that is <!ENTITY lt"&#60;"> )
- From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>
- To: David John Burrowes <biede0@gmail.com>, Ghislain Fourny <gfourny@inf.ethz.ch>
- Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 21:55:21 -0400
On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 17:19 -0700, David John Burrowes wrote:
> Thank you Ghislain,
>
> Your comment was useful, and helped pull my mind out of the rut it
> was in. Still, it doesn’t really seem to offer a definitive reason
> why internal and external entities are processed differently.
You're right it doesn't - there's no good reason really, except that
external entities are only processed once, just like the main body of
the document.
Liam
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