- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 13:17:08 -0500
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Cc: xml-editors@w3.org
I noticed the following production in the latest proposed recommendation of XML 1.1: [78] extParsedEnt ::= TextDecl? content - Char* RestrictedChar Char* In XML 1.0 the production is [78] extParsedEnt ::= TextDecl? content The rationale for this change is unclear to me. Could anyone explain this? I think this trying to say that an external parsed entity cannot contain control characters unless they're wrapped inside an element, comment, or processing instruction--for instance, an external parsed entity consisting only of the bell character or  would be illegal, but <bell></bell> would be legal--but I'm not sure. Does anyone know exactly what this means and why? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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