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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: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:23:15 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <40B3CBE1.8060403@z...>
• References: <030f01c44266$1252f320$6403a8c0@ARIMATHEA><p06010202bcd91e1e005e@[192.168.254.88]> <40B3CBE1.8060403@z...>

>so is this perfectly ok?
>
><!DOCTYPE doc [
>  <!ENTITY e "<foo>">
>]>
><doc>
>  <child>&e;test</foo></child>
></doc>
>
>and the entity thing is really just a macro definition?


No, and no. That's malformed. The entity replacement text must be 
well-balanced.

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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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    • From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>

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