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Re: Forming a MIME_TYPE Attribute list

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• Subject: Re: Forming a MIME_TYPE Attribute list
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:22:27 -0400
• In-reply-to: <3EDFA57D.7ED5579C@b...>

For Mike Marker's case:
> The following does not work:
> 
> <!ATTLIST MIME_TYPE value (text/html | application/pdf | image/tiff)
> "image/tiff">
> 
> due to the '/' characters.

Joseph Chiusano writes:
>I think an internal entity will work for this [1].
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#intern-replacement

Ari Krupnikov wrote:
>Enumerated attribute values are NMTOKENs and as such can only
>include name characters. "/" is not a name character.

I think Ari trumps Joseph - entities aren't designed to let you smuggle
illegal characters into places where they're barred by the syntax.

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