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> Can an entity's replacement text contain an entity reference? Yes. > <!ENTITY foo "foomeister"> > <!ENTITY boo "it is a &foo;"> This has the result you expect. It's worth noting just how this works. The reference to foo is *not* expanded at the time boo is defined, but gets expanded after boo itself is expanded in the body of the document. So there is no requirement for foo to be defined before boo. Character entities on the other hand *are* expanded at definition time, which is why the definition of amp (see earlier discussion) needs "double escaping". > If this is legal, what XML parsers support it? I would have guessed "all of them", if you hadn't said IE5 doesn't. -- 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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