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[Sean Mc Grath] > >> My point is that you cannot switch from: >> <!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "doc.dtd"> >> to: >> <!DOCTYPE foo [ >> <!ENTITY % dtd SYSTEM "doc.dtd"> >> %dtd; >> ]> >> >> and expect things to be exactly the same. if you have >> conditional sections in doc.dtd, the latter is illegal. > [John Cowan] >I understand what you mean. I believe you are not correct. >Conditional sections are allowed in external PEs referenced >from the internal subset, just not in the internal subset itself. > I only have one validating XML parser on this machine IBMs XML4J:- doc.dtd <!ELEMENT foo (#PCDATA)> <![IGNORE[ <!ATTLIST foo bar CDATA #REQUIRED> ]]> a.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE foo [ <!ENTITY % dtd SYSTEM "doc.dtd"> %dtd; ]> <foo></foo> b.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "doc.dtd"> <foo></foo> b.xml validates. a.xml fails reporting:- Error: Conditional section only allowed in external subset. (2,3) <Sean uri="http://www.digitome.com/sean.htm"/> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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