• From: "Eve L. Maler" <elm@a...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 15:56:37 -0500

When I try to reference an entity within an attribute value, the parser (I am using msxml) complains.
The message that I am getting is 'Invalid element in context of 'APP'. Expected [ADDURL,EDITURL] in line 3 and column 18. This message makes no sense to me.

Here is my XML:



<?XML version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE TREE [
<!ENTITY TEST "myapp">
<!ELEMENT TREE (CATEGORY)*>
<!ELEMENT CATEGORY (ADDURL?,EDITURL?,(CATEGORY|APP)*)>
<!ATTLIST CATEGORY
name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT APP (ADDURL?,EDITURL?)>
<!ATTLIST APP
name CDATA #REQUIRED
thing CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT ADDURL (#PCDATA)*>
<!ELEMENT EDITURL (#PCDATA)*>
]>
<TREE>
<CATEGORY name="mycategory">


<APP name="&TEST;">
<ADDURL> someurl </ADDURL>
<EDITURL> anotherurl </EDITURL>
</APP>
</CATEGORY>
</TREE>



How do we use entities within attributes?

I find the whole concept of entities to be a bit confusing (internal vs. external; general vs. parameter; parsed vs. unparsed etc.). Is there a site where one could find some good examples describing how the various types of entities are used?



Eve L. Maler wrote:

It's legal to reference a parsed entity from an attribute value, and every
XML processor should be able to handle it. To do this properly, the
reference would have to look like this:

<aTag xml-link="simple" href="&aRef;">content</aTag>

(Using an ENTITY-type attribute wouldn't automatically expand it in place,
and anyway, has to be used exclusively with unparsed entities -- those with
an NDATA notation.)

Eve

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