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RE: Retrieving attributes from an internal entity

• From: Don Kackman <DKACKMAN@a...>
• To: 'XML Dev' <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 15:37:17 -0600

Thanks for the quick reply Tim. 

How about this one...

I'm declaring the following entity:

<!ENTITY pct "<unit name='Percent' symbol='%'/>">

When I try to load this with MSXML I get this error:

A name was started with an invalid character.
Line 0000003: ...getset='om'><unit name='Percent'
symbol='%'/>OM</variable>">
Pos  0000070: ...------------------------------------------^

If I change % to any other character it loads fine. Can I use the %
symbol in an entity declaration? I suspect it thinks I'm trying to
insert a parameter entity.

Thanks again,

Don


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 3:18 PM
To: Don Kackman; 'XML Dev'
Subject: Re: Retrieving attributes from an internal entity


At 03:10 PM 11/2/98 -0600, Don Kackman wrote:
><!ENTITY om "<variable targetset='om'>OM</variable>">
>
>I can load the document into MSXML (thier parser) and traverse the node
>tree. When I get to the node where I am refering to the &om; entity I
>get OM back as the value of that node but I cannot retrieve the
>targetset attribute.
>
>Is this a limitation of the MS beta parser or am I misunderstanding how
>entities are used in XML?

You're fine, you should be able to retrieve that attribute.  You
should report this back to Microsoft ASAP, I'm sure they'll fix it. -T.

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