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Re: External subset processing by browsers

• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:50:50 -0800

Andrew Welch wrote:

> I have a similar issue, for example there are some RSS feeds which
> contain entity references but no doctype:
> 
> <foo>foo &euro; bar</foo>
> 

Similar but not the same. Since there is no DOCTYPE or external DTD 
subset, there is no possibility that these entities could be resolved. 
Consequently such a document is unambiguously malformed.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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