• To: Jerome Vouillon <vouillon@p...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Parameter entity references
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:27:59 -0800
• In-reply-to: <20020116110706.GA2829@s...>

At 12:07 PM 16/01/02 +0100, Jerome Vouillon wrote:

>Does this mean that the document below is also well-formed?
>      <!DOCTYPE doc [
>      <!ELEMENT doc EMPTY>
>      <!ENTITY % e "<!--">
>      %e; -->
>      ]>
>      <doc></doc>
>Indeed, I was not able to find any well-formedness constraint that
>would be violated by this document.

I think the contents of the internal subset don't match productions
[28]-[29].

>Also, is the document below a valid document?
>    foo.xml:
>      <!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "foot.ent">
>      <doc></doc>
>    with foo.ent:
>      <!ELEMENT doc EMPTY>
>      <!ENTITY % a 'b "'>
>      <!ENTITY %a; c">
>I was not able to find any constraint that would disallow it.

Looks non-WF to me..., the last line doesn't match [72]. -Tim

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