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Re: Why are erroneous ENTITY declarations not caught inXML val

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
• Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:12:21 +0100

On 23/10/2012 15:22, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Read the spec [1], guys:
>
> 4.4.7 Bypassed
>
> When a general entity reference appears in the EntityValue in an
> entity declaration, it must be bypassed and left as is.
>
> ht
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#bypass
>


That was exactly Michael's point. It isn't really clear (unless you just
know from SGML that that's what happens) that "bypassed" there doesn't
just mean that it is not expanded. The requirement that it be defined is
not phrased in a conditional way so it is hard to argue that this line
over-rides that requirement.



David

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• References:
  • Why are erroneous ENTITY declarations not caught in XML validation?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Why are erroneous ENTITY declarations not caught inXML validation?
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
  • Re: Why are erroneous ENTITY declarations not caught inXML validation?
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
  • Re: Why are erroneous ENTITY declarations not caught in XML validation?
    • From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)