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hi! i have a dilemna regarding how to parse EntityValue, specifically (as a demonstration of my issue with it) in the following case: <!ENTITY % ap "&#39;" > ( 38 = "&" , 39 = "'" ) <!ENTITY msg "he said %ap;hi!%ap;" > as i understand it, the replacement text for "ap" should be stored as "'" because char ref's and pe's must be replaced by their values. cool. now i get to parsing "msg" and i find the pe. it would be simple to (1) replace '%ap;' with the replacement text thus giving: "he said 'hi!'" (replacement text for "msg") but perhaps this is incorrect, eg you must (2) substitue in the replacement text and 'reparse', thus giving: "he said 'hi!'" (replacement text for "msg") in this particular case, it does not matter. but if indeed the replacement text must be reparsed, as in (2), then this makes the parsing actually quite difficult: according to the XML 1.0 spec section 4.4.5, the characters ' and " no longer are special! eg. the following would be a pain since the parser must remember where the ' is special and where not: <!ENTITY % ap "&#39;" > <!ENTITY % said "%ap;hi!%ap;" > <!ENTITY msg 'he said %said;' > with the following results: entity no-reparse with-reparse ------- ----------- ------------- ap ' ' said 'hi!' 'hi!' msg he said 'hi!' he said 'hi!' the problem is that if "&msg;" is ever used in the document content, they will both evaluate to the same thing. the only difference is that "with-reparse" is more difficult... i hope you understand my dilemna, and thanks for your help. phil. 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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