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Re: SAX and Entity Literals containing content

• To: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Subject: Re: SAX and Entity Literals containing content
• From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:29:29 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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On Wed, 26 May 2004 08:42:41 +1000
Rick Marshall <rjm@z...> wrote:
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> > At 7:37 AM -0700 5/25/04, Jeff Rafter wrote:
> >
> >> This question comes as a follow-up to my wellformedness question that
> >I> asked earlier. I already believe that I know the answer but want to 
> >> double
> >> check. In the case of:
> >>
> >> <!DOCTYPE doc [
> >>   <!ENTITY e "<foo>test</foo>">
> >> ]>
> >> <doc>
> >>   <child>&e;</child>
> >> </doc>
> >>
> >> Should a SAX parser report a startElement and endElement event for
> ><foo>> when it is included?
> >>
> >
> > Yes, absolutely.
> 
> so is this perfectly ok?
> 
> <!DOCTYPE doc [
>   <!ENTITY e "<foo>">
> ]>
> <doc>
>   <child>&e;test</foo></child>
> </doc>

Nope.  Has to be independently well-formed ("well-balanced").

> and the entity thing is really just a macro definition?

Not really.  It's a bit of a mess, as things stand (imo, of course).

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