Taro,
At 10:21 AM 7/28/2003, you wrote:
Is the situation any different for 'internal or external general
entities',
or is it the same as for character entities?
Strictly speaking, formally there's no such thing as a "character entity".
There are "character references" which are numeric, take the form &#_160;
(remove underscore), and then there are "entity references", which use the
name of an entity, which must be declared, such as &_nbsp;. Whether that
entity is expanded to one character or many makes no difference to the XML
processor, for these purposes.
So the short answer is yes, it's the same; what you're calling a "character
entity" *is* a general entity (that happens to resolve to a single character).
Cheers,
Wendell
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