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Re: Nested entity declarations in DTDs

  • From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
  • To: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>, xml-dev@l..., daniel@d...
  • Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:42:19 -0400

Re:  Nested entity declarations in DTDs
On Sun, 2022-03-13 at 20:04 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure of the consequences of "Non-Normative" in the section
> heading. 

It means that if there's a contradiction, the non-normative part should
be ignored; it's intended to explain rather than to constrain.

>  The way I read the related text is that they explain expected
> behavior but also call this method error-prone to warn XML writers of
> relying on this feature because of to-be-expected incompatibilities
> with some implementations, 

No - the expectation is that implementations will get this right; it's
just tricky for human users :)

Best,

Liam

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