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From: John E. Simpson <simpson@p...> >It's possible I'm missing something extremely (perversely) subtle, but I >don't get the sense of "*cannot* redeclare" [emphasis added] at all in the >above passage. True, it does say that "all XML processors must recognize" >the predefined entities. If no redeclaration at all were permitted, the >sentence beginning "If the entities in question are declared" wouldn't make >a lot of sense, right? There is a similar issue with xml:lang. Some processors (e.g. early LotusXSL and others) did not have built-in declarations for xml:lang. But when you tried to give one, it required a namespace declaration. And then it would say that declaring an xml namespace was not allowed. I think it is a sign of inadequate testing. Developers should check that their products allow xml:lang in WF, valid and namespaced documents. Even just putting xml:lang="en-US" on one element in a test file should expose the problem. The spec says "In valid documents, this attribute, like any other, must be declared if it is used." Rick Jelliffe 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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