Re: [xml-dev] SAX and Entity Literals containing content

From
Rick Marshall <>
To
Elliotte Rusty Harold <>
Date
2004-05-25T22:42:41Z
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Re: [xml-dev] SAX and Entity Literals containing content
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> At 7:37 AM -0700 5/25/04, Jeff Rafter wrote:
>
>> This question comes as a follow-up to my wellformedness question that I
>> asked earlier. I already believe that I know the answer but want to 
>> double
>> check. In the case of:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE doc [
>>   <!ENTITY e "<foo>test</foo>">
>> ]>
>> <doc>
>>   <child>&e;</child>
>> </doc>
>>
>> Should a SAX parser report a startElement and endElement event for <foo>
>> when it is included?
>>
>
> Yes, absolutely.

so is this perfectly ok?

<!DOCTYPE doc [
  <!ENTITY e "<foo>">
]>
<doc>
  <child>&e;test</foo></child>
</doc>

and the entity thing is really just a macro definition?

rick