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> <!ENTITY amp "&x0026;" > Actually this isn't quite right. There's a typo (it should be ) but there's also a less obvious error. The declaration above will define amp to contain the single character "&", since character entities in entity definitions are expanded. When the entity is used, it will be re-expanded, producing a syntax error, since the parser encounters a bare ampersand. The solution is to use a "double-escape" in the definition, like this: <!ENTITY amp "&#x0026;"> or equivalently <!ENTITY amp "&#38;"> which is the "canonical" definition given in the XML spec. The effect of this is that amp is defined as "&" and this is expanded to produce "&" when the amp is referenced in the document. -- Richard 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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