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Perry A. Caro scripsit:
> [T]his would imply that the following declaration in an internal DTD subset
> would result in an internal general parsed entity that is not well-formed:
>
> <!ENTITY cdend "]]>">
>
> ... because the replacement text does not match the [43] content production.
Yes.
> If so ...
>
> 1) This contradicts statements about Literals in section 2.3, namely:
>
> Literal data is any quoted string not containing the quotation mark
> used as a delimiter for that string. Literals are used for
> specifying the content of internal entities (EntityValue),
That does not mean that *every* literal is capable of being used to
specify a well-formed internal entity declaration. The restriction of
matching the content production is superadded to the definition of a
literal.
> Furthermore, [10] AttValue also permits "]]>". It would be nonsensical for
> <foo bar="]]>"/> to be well-formed, but not <foo bar="&cdend;"/>, using the
> entity declaration above.
There are occasional anomalies of this sort, which are of no consequence.
When fooling around with "]]>", always use "]]>" instead -- it was
for this reason that > was provided in XML.
If you think it's a problem, mail it to xml-editor@w... .
--
John Cowan jcowan@r... www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
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on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land,
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