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thanks for all the responses - sorry to chris for any 'railing' but i was having an extra annoying day. just to summarize: tim says: Recent WG decisions require that parameter entity expansions (outside of entitity values) should be forced to match an even number tokens simply by appending & prepending spaces to their expansion; I hypothesize that this is what the msxml code is doing. chris maden says: That's absolutely uncool. My résumé is NOT a r é sum é . This will, I hope, be fixed before the actual release. andrew says: Yes, the MSXML code is attempting to match the XML specs as recently revised by the WG decision. (Thanks for the test files, Tim, Henry and Michael: We'll use these in testing.) chris says: The code; if (sb.length() > 0) sb.append(' '); is a bug and will be removed from next version, along with several other things :-) so could someone please explain the WG decision and hasn't chris maden got a pretty good point? chris (lovett): i wanted to use CDATA in an entity definition 'cos i might stick a lot of crazy characters in there - like some apostrophes for instance - but reading tim's test files i see it's common to escape tricky characters with their hex equivalents - it's just a pain if you've got a large entity definition. am i using entities incorrectly? - i think of them as macros and i expect them to be expanded as normal text and then the expanded text parsed so sticking a CDATA in there shouldn't really matter. finally (msxml question): in my dtd i want to use entities to set attribute defaults... <!ENTITY % foo 'abc'> <!ENTITY % bar '"def"'> <!ELEMENT baz EMPTY> <!ATTLIST baz arg1 CDATA '%foo;' arg2 CDATA %bar;> under msxml, arg1 gets a default of '%foo;' and arg2 gets a default of 'def', suggesting parameter entity references aren't expanded within the default string in an attdef(?). good, bad and/or ugly? it means tim's entval2.xml has this line in it's expansion under msxml: BAR CDATA "A{Value of b}C%d;EMF" thanks heaps for those test files - i was trying every which way of getting the defaults to expand properly within the dtd - and now i can! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Iguana Information Services Ph +64 4 499 9782 PO Box 10 609 Fax +64 4 499 4439 Wellington Email scott@i... New Zealand HTTP http://www.iguana.co.nz xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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