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Re: External parsed entities (Re: Inconsistency between IETF and W3C...)

1999-12-07 01:12:33


MURATA Makoto wrote:

MURATA Makoto wrote:
As for external PARAMETER entities, they always parse as external DTD 
subsets.
I now think that we do not need a specialized media type for external 
parameter
entites.

Having read the XML specification and errara carefully, I withdraw my
claim.  An external PARAMETER entity does *not* always parse as an external
DTD subset.

For example, the following XML document is valid.

foo.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "foo.dtd">
<foo/>

foo.dtd

<!ENTITY % foope SYSTEM "foope.mod">
<!ELEMENT foo %foope;>

foope.mod

EMPTY

The Syntax WG decided that wasn't well-formed. (Fix to E71.)

James