• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:10:15 -0700

At 11:47 PM 27/09/01 -0700, Christopher R. Maden wrote:

>I think that, although perhaps unintended, this gotcha is a good one.  A compliant validating parser should detect the problem, which protects users from something like
>...
><!ENTITY % x "x | y">
><!ELEMENT a (%x;?)>
>
>which, if legal, would have surprising results.

That's right, dammit!  It's a designed-in feature, not a
bug!  -Tim

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