• To: tbray@t... (Tim Bray)
• Subject: Re: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:49:01 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold), ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3DBD76B4.1070504@t...> from "Tim Bray" at Oct 28, 2002 10:41:08 AM

Tim Bray scripsit:

> Er uh you sure John?  I betcha most parsers accept it.  The XML Spec 
> never did a good job of making up its mind whether it was defining the 
> pre-entity-expansion or post-entity-expansion infoset.  The correct 
> solution is of course to discard all entities except numeric character 
> references, cf XML-SW. -Tim

The BNF is post-*parameter*-entity-expansion, for the most part, but
*general* entity references can only appear in content and attribute
values, not at the top level.

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