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Re: Allowed PEReference usages

• To: "Brett Kail" <junkaddr@h...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Allowed PEReference usages
• From: "Bob Foster" <bob@o...>
• Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 04:58:39 -0500
• References: <Law11-F113yF2mLEAH900039e24@h...>

> <!ENTITY % begin '<!ENTITY % value "str'>
> <!ENTITY % end 'ing">'>
> <!ENTITY % all '%begin;%end;'>
> %all;
>
> This seems valid to me (as well as all other possible constructions of the
> 'all' entity that come from recursively expanding PEs).  Do others agree?

If you interpret the Proper Declaration/PE Nesting validity constraint as
applying only to PEReferences outside entity value literals, then what you
have is ok, but %begin;%end; instead of %all; would be invalid. Otherwise,
not. No doubt someone here knows what was _meant_.


Bob Foster

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