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Mike Kay wrote: > I suspect an XML parser should report this as an error. The > XML version of > the XML specification itself, however, contains the line > > <!ENTITY lt "<"> > > and most parsers accept it: but IE5 doesn't. For once I think > MS are in the > right. The XML Core Working Group looked at this issue at our behest, and has confirmed that the above entity is mal-formed, but a parser should only report an error if this entity is actually referenced. Errata are in the process of being issued to clarify this. In the case of the XML spec itself, a correct declaration exists (if I recall correctly) that overrides the faulty declaration, so the entity is never referenced and no errors should result. However, DOM Level 1 states that for each entity declaration, an entity node is built. It makes no provision for malformed but un-referenced entities, assuming that the XML parser will take care of all well-formedness issues. There appears to be a hole in the standards, best addressed by an errata against DOM Level 1. Until then, we have a dilemma over which recommendation we want to conform to. The solution we judged to be cleanest to let the parser determine well-formedness. Note that there is an additional ambiguity over the extent (if any) that the built-in entities can be redeclared, which may be contributing to the non-interoperable results described. - Jonathan Marsh Microsoft XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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