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More on parameter entity magic for prefixing

• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>, xml-dev <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:38:31 -0800

At 01:07 PM 3/11/00 -0800, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

>However a trick I picked up from the MathML 2.0 DTD is to use double
>indirection like this:
><!ENTITY % rd-prefix "rd">
><!ENTITY % rd-colon  ":">
><!ENTITY % rd-test "%rd-colon;%rd-prefix;test">
><!ELEMENT %rd-test; (#PCDATA)>
>This works but for the life of me I can't see why. How come the rd-test
>entity is defined as "rd:test" instead of " rd  : test"? Can anyone
>justify this behavior in terms of the spec?

Also, check section 4.5, which goes into detail, and the commentary on that
in the annotated spec.  And for real world-class sleaze, see appendix D. 
 -Tim

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