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> In making one more pass through the official grammar for XML, before > I despatch my alternative version to the 5 people who've requested > copies, I spotted a real dumb error in the doctype declaration. Since posting this I did something even more useful. :-) I went back to ISO 8879 in which, of course, the use of paremeter entity references is allowed in both the "internal" and "external" subsets. As a programmer I reckon that the different handling of parameter entities between the internal and external subsets makes things MORE complicated rather than simpler. I knew there was something wrong with the avowed claim that XML was a subset of SGML. If they're to be allowed (and they are allowed in some odd places in XML) then let them occur wherever SGML lets them occur. Regards, Trevor. -- "Real Men don't Read Instruction Manuals" Tim Allen, Home Improvement xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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