Re: [xml-dev] Why the double escape for lt ? (that is <!ENTITY lt"&#38;

[David John Burrowes <biede0@gmail.com>]

Yes.  I’m also inclining towards the “no good reason” answer. :-)

david

> On Nov 4, 2016, at 6:55 PM, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:
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> 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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