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A nice propeller head XML question :-)

• From: Dean Roddey <roddey@u...>
• To: <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 19:56:52 -0400

If the expansion of an entity reference is required to have a space on either
side of the expanded text, correct? If so, then something like this must be
invalid?

<!ENTITY % Foo 'ENTITY'>
<!%Foo; Bar 'Baz'>

right? Because the expansion of Foo requires that spaces be placed on either
side, creating this:

<! ENTITY Bar 'Baz'>

and the production for a PE declaration is:

PEDecl ::=  '<!ENTITY' S '%' S Name S PEDef S? '>'

which does not allow any space between the ! and ENTITY.

Is this correct? Basically what I'm looking for here is a more general rule
which says that I can consider any %blah; occurance at some place in the
grammar that does not allow spaces at that point to be in error without even
checking any further?

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Dean Roddey
Software Weenie
IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley
roddey@u...

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