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Re: entity definitions

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• Subject: Re: entity definitions
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:45:03 +0100

There only seem to be examples of entity definition, none of entity
reference.

The thing that has killed all previous attempts to do this is that in
XML 1.0 (and 1.1) a reference to "& e a c u t e ;" results in a
non-wellformed document unless there is also a <!DOCTYPE and if you are
going to have a doctype declaration, you may as well define the entity
in dtd syntax.

There was a request at XML 1.1 to make an undefined entity (that is,
undefined by dtd) a validity rather than WF error, exactly to allow this
kind of alternative syntax, but it wasn't accepted.


David

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