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Re: More questions about conformance and entities

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• Subject: Re: More questions about conformance and entities
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:07:48 -0400
• References: <20041025151340.09D7718FE37@m...>

> ><!ENTITY % e "<!-- a ">
> ><!ENTITY % f "%e;comment -->">
> 
> This is ok, because there is no comment here.  There will only be a
> comment if f is referenced at the top-level of the DTD, and at that
> point the start and end of the comment will both be in the same parameter
> entity (f).
> 
> But you couldn't do this:
> 
>   <!ENTITY % e "<!-- a ">
>   %e;comment -->


After carefully re-reading http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#vc-PEinMarkupDecl
I have to agree.

Karl

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