- From: C M Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 19:35:54 -0500
- To: d96-mst@d.kth.se
- CC: xml-editor@w3.org, cmsmcq@acm.org
>From: d96-mst@d.kth.se (Mikael Ståldal) >Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:07:37 +0100 > >After reading the XML 1.0 spec, a few questions remain. > >Is it legal to have a reference to an external parameter entity inside >an EntityValue? >E.g: ><!ENTITY % somePe SYSTEM "foobar.ent"> ><!ENTITY someEntity "a %somePe; b"> The XML Syntax WG has recently discussed this issue and agreed to include in the errata a rule saying that this is NOT legal. It is in practice seldom useful, since external parameter entities must match the extPE production (section 4.3.2). >Should parameter entity references be recognized and expanded in >AttValues inside the DTD (i.e. in [60] DefaultDecl)? >E.g: ><!ATTLIST elem attr CDATA "a %somePe; b"> I am not going to be able to answer this without checking the spec more carefully. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago
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