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Re: More questions about conformance and entities

• To: Richard Tobin <richard@i...>
• Subject: Re: More questions about conformance and entities
• From: Jeff Rafter <lists@j...>
• Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:48:24 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20041025175613.43590190020@m...>
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> When an internal parameter entity is defined, you should scan the
> entity value for:
> 
>  - character references (which you replace)
>  - parameter entity references (which you replace and rescan, following
>    these same rules)
>  - general entity references (which you check for syntactic correctness,
>    rejecting &*; for example, but don't replace).

This is incredibly helpful. It is essentially the conclusion I had 
reached in my last email as well. I think I can finally fix everything 
now. And now that it seems so clear I wonder what it was that made me so 
confused-- maybe it was that I implemented general entities first and 
was transposing some of that behavior incorrectly onto PEs.

> In theory you should check that an entity reference isn't to an
> unparsed entity, but since you may not have seen the entity
> declaration yet you might as well leave it until the reference would
> be replaced (which can only be during the parsing of the instance, or
> during the validation of an attribute default value).

Hmm, are there any applications that check this without having a 
reference in the document? RXP for example?

Thanks again,
Jeff Rafter

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