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MSXML 3.0 will parse it and generate <test/>. Best regards Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:59 AM > To: Christopher R. Maden; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Is whitespace within general entities ignorable? > > > At 09:20 PM 27/02/01 -0800, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > >><!DOCTYPE test [ > >><!ELEMENT test (child)*> > >><!ENTITY entws " "> > >>]> > >><test> &entws; </test> > > > >I believe your example is legal, to contradict John Cowan. > > In my experience, John Cowan is one of those People Who Is > Usually Right. I must say though, that I'm having trouble > agreeing with him on this one. John, did this get covered > in one of the errata? I know the empty CDATA section thing > did, but I don't recall this, and I have trouble thinking > of anything in XML 1.0 that rules this out. > > Reason is, I can actually see this being useful in > certain circumstances, in publishing contexts, where you > have a between-siblings entity that could be redefined to > be whitespace (or not) depending on some other stuff in > the internal subset, and depending on the declarations in > effect, be legal in a variety of different ways. > > What does actual real-world software do with this? > > -Tim > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... >
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