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Re: Question about internal parameter entity well-fomedness.

• From: "David Brownell" <david-b@p...>
• To: "KAZUMI Saito" <ksaito@f...>, <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 06:51:20 -0700

> The test ID invalid--001 in the oasis XML Processor Conformance test requests
> notifing the violation of Validity Constraint: Proper Declaration/PE Nesting in
> section 2.8 .
> 
> 001.ent:
>   <!ELEMENT doc EMPTY>
>   <!ENTITY % e "<!--">
>   %e; -->
> 
> 001.xml:
>   <!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "001.ent">
>   <doc></doc>
> 
> Isn't this error fatal?

Nope, all it violates is a validity constraint so it would
by definition not be a well formedness error.


> Because XML 1.0 section 4.3.2 last 2 paragraphs says "all internal parameter
> entities are properly nested", I think.

4.3.2 says that "by definition" internal PEs are well formed, so the
definition of "%e;" is fine.  It's the use on the next line that
violates the VC in 2.8 ...

- Dave



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