- From: Constantine Plotnikov <cap@novosoft.nsc.ru>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:12:33 +0600
- To: xml-editor@w3.org
Hi! I have not found in the specification how XML processor should treat entities in the comment. The proplem it that if in DTD I use comments describing enetity with examples before enetity declaration, then some XML processors ignore it and some give error on it. Example of XML processor that gives this error is AElfred http://www.microstar.com/aelfred.html. Document and DTD that produce an error are http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210.xml and http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/spec.dtd. I suggest to specify how entites are treated in the comment. For example it may be one of following: a) they should not be expanded. b) they may be expanded by XML processor and therefore should be declared before usage in comment. I think that issue is important for document portability. Constantine
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