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Re: Schemas and Other Crucial XML Questions

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:27:27 -0400

Tyler Baker writes:

 > BTW, on a side-note I am having a problem understanding whether the
 > external subset or the internal subset should be parsed first.  I
 > would assume that the external subset should go first, but in this
 > case it would make using INCLUDE and IGNORE sections to be pretty
 > useless.  This is something that is not clarified as far as I can
 > tell in the 1.0 spec so if someone could clarify how this should be
 > handled by a parser, then I would greatly appreciate it.

The internal DTD subset is parsed first, so that entity declarations
there take priority over those in the external subset -- I don't have
time to check the actual language of the spec right now, however.


All the best,


David

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