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Re: Nested entity declarations in DTDs

• From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 20:52:14 +0000

On 13/03/2022 18:21, David Carlisle wrote:
[...]

"Why" questions are hard to answer, especially when there are people watching who were there and could answer :-)

Not guilty :-)

But I think that the idea was that processors are allowed to not
fetch external subsets but are required to process the internal
subset so the internal subset has a restricted syntax so that such implementations don't need the full w̶e̶i̶r̶d̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ power of full
DTD processing capability.

• References:
  • Nested entity declarations in DTDs
    • From: daniel@devasta.ie
  • Re: Nested entity declarations in DTDs
    • From: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle@gmail.com>
  • Re: Nested entity declarations in DTDs
    • From: daniel@devasta.ie
  • Re: Nested entity declarations in DTDs
    • From: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle@gmail.com>