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Re: DTD parameter entities

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• Subject: Re: DTD parameter entities
• From: richard@c... (Richard Tobin)
• Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:45:45 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <6.0.0.22.0.20040421212252.02130b80@p...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

><!ENTITY % ATTLIST "<!ATTLIST ">
><!ENTITY % CLOSE ">">
><!ENTITY % ELEMNAME "doc">
><!ENTITY % ATTNAME "att">
>%ATTLIST; %ELEMNAME;%ATTNAME; CDATA #FIXED "value"%CLOSE;

This is well-formed but not valid: the rule that a declaration must
end in the same entity it starts in is a validity constraint.

RXP will report this if you use the -V flag (at least recent versions
will, I can't remember when I implemented that check).

-- Richard

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