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On 6 November 2016 at 20:32, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote: > and I have never encountered an XML document which > actually declares < or & > hmm well... https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210.xml line 21 of which is <!ENTITY lt "<"> Technically you are right of course that this document doesn't define < (and is well formed) despite that line not meeting the requirements as specified in the same document, as that isn't a definition of lt as it is ignored as lt is pre-defined (by definition in XML or in the sgml declaration for sgml) but it always seemed a good test case (and James Clark confirmed his understanding was that it was well formed when I queried it at the time) sadly later edits of the xml spec have rubbed off such nice self referential tests:-) David
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