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Re: External entities

• To: Gustaf Liljegren <gustaf.liljegren@b...>
• Subject: Re: External entities
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 23:32:07 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3.0.6.32.20031106010629.00b609e0@p...>
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Gustaf Liljegren scripsit:

> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!ENTITY alef "&#x05D0;">
> ...
> 
> And here's the document entity mydoc.xml:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE doc [
> <!ENTITY hebrew SYSTEM "hebrew.ent">
> ]>

It needs to be not "hebrew" but "% hebrew", and you need to
actually invoke the parameter entity by adding "%hebrew;"
at the end of the DOCTYPE declaration.

> What kind of entity is "alef"? I know it's a general entity, but that's not
> precice enough, and "external general entity" is the whole file.

There is no standard terminology based on the place where an entity is
declared.  I use the term "internal general entity externally declared",
and likewise for the other three possibilities.

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