> Hmmm.... an idle thought suggests that non-validating parsers which
> don't retrieve external resources may actually have an advantage here,
yes that is the annoying thing about the current spec,
<x>&foo;</x>
is a not well formed but
<!DOCTYPE SYSTEM "/dev/null">
<x>&foo;</x>
is well formed but not valid.
If it was always well formed even without the pointless <!DOCTYPE things
would be a lot easier if you wanted to experiment with alternative
entity declaration mechanisms.
David
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