• From: David Lindholm <david.lindholm@a...>
• To: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 16:00:57 +0200

Hi!

> > Can an entity's replacement text contain an entity reference?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > <!ENTITY foo "foomeister">
> > <!ENTITY boo "it is a &foo;">
> 
> This has the result you expect.
> 
> > If this is legal, what XML parsers support it?
> 
> I would have guessed "all of them", if you hadn't said IE5 doesn't.

I have no problem with this on my IE5, it works as expected.

-David

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