> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Harold [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 14:25
> To: Alessandro Triglia
> Cc: 'XML Developers List'
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re: Non-infoset
>
>
> Alessandro Triglia wrote:
>
> > Don't "unexpanded entity references" address this?
>
> No, it doesn't. That only applies to unexpanded entities in
> the element
> content. The key sentence is "There is such an information
> item for each
> unexpanded reference to an external general entity *within
> the content
> of an element*." It does not apply to unexpanded entities in the
> attribute values. SAX has the same problem. Dom, interestingly, does
> not, because DOM allows attribute values to have children.
I see, you said "an attribute value".
But then, doesn't the following apply?
----
It is an error if an attribute value contains a reference to an entity for
which no declaration has been read.
error [Definition: A violation of the rules of this specification; results
are undefined.]
----
Alessandro
>
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> Elliotte Rusty Harold
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