• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w...>
• To: David John Burrowes <biede0@g...>, Ghislain Fourny <gfourny@i...>
• Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 21:55:21 -0400

On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 17:19 -0700, David John Burrowes wrote:
> Thank you Ghislain,
> 
> Your comment was useful, and helped pull my mind out of the rut it
> was in. Still, it doesn’t really seem to offer a definitive reason
> why internal and external entities are processed differently.

You're right it doesn't - there's no good reason really, except that
external entities are only processed once, just like the main body of
the document.

Liam



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Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w...>
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• References:
  • Why the double escape for lt ? (that is <!ENTITY lt "&#38;#60;">)
    • From: David John Burrowes <biede0@g...>
  • RE: Why the double escape for lt ? (that is <!ENTITY lt "&#38;#60;"> )
    • From: "Ghislain Fourny" <gfourny@i...>
  • Re: Why the double escape for lt ? (that is <!ENTITY lt"&#38;#60;"> )
    • From: David John Burrowes <biede0@g...>