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Re: special characters

2003-05-23 15:32:08
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!-- latin capital letter E with grave, U+00C8 ISOlat1 &#201; -->
  <!ENTITY eacute "&eacute;">

That would be a very dangerous file. It could be considered a denial of
service attack: It will put any XML parser into an infinite loop if it
ever finds an instance of &eacute;.

An entity that recursively references itself is not well-formed. Parsers are
supposed to check for that.

Bob


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