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> > Actually, it's already a syntax error - S. 4.3.2 says that "An internal > > parsed general entity is well-formed if its replacement text matches > > <i>content</i>." > > Actually that's not quite right. The parsed entity is not > well-formed, but that doesn't affect the well-formedness of the > document unless the entity is referenced (section 2.1). > > > Do any of the available parsers indicate an error if &elt; > > is not used in the document? > > Yes - the STG validator at http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/ Here was our rationale: If an entity is defined in such a way that, if used, it will always generate an error, then it makes sense to let the user know about it. Generally this situation reflects a problem with the DTD - in fact, the worst kind of problem in the sense that it results in a DTD that seems to work perfectly fine with some documents, but then suddenly produces errors when somebody writes a document that actually uses the entity in question. It makes the DTD writer think that the error is in the document (which, according to the standard, it is). -- Richard Goerwitz PGP key fingerprint: C1 3E F4 23 7C 33 51 8D 3B 88 53 57 56 0D 38 A0 For more info (mail, phone, fax no.): finger richard@g... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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