- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:40:09 -0500 (EST)
- To: gkholman@microstar.com (Ken Holman)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> Would this, then, be an infinitely recursable problem? If the entity > refers to the document itself, which contains an entity that refers to > the document itself, which contains.... Only if you tried to include it, I guess. > >If you put a really bogus system identifier in, then you > >have an incorrect XML document, which is probably what you want in > >practice, but at least the XML spec does not "condone" such a thing. > > Is this a check of well-formedness? If an XML document is defined to be a document with URLs in particular places things that do not have URLs in those places are just not XML documents. That means that they are neither well-formed nor valid XML documents. Paul Prescod
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