Re: This can't be right, XML with no root element: Sax

> When do you use external parsed entities with plain text?

never. only with XML, it's just that they are not complete XML
documents, just fragments (which are included into whole documents by
entity reference). But they should always be parsed by an XML parser
(hence the name).

> Do all
> external parsed entities have to have the declaration,

No, as utf8 or utf16 don't have to be declared.

>  so you cannot
> read in a simple ASCII file, for example?

That's true. XML (unlike SGML) decided that all external entities were
parsed as XML.

David

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