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• Subject: Re: External entities
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 01:15:16 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <3.0.6.32.20031106010629.00b609e0@p...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <3.0.6.32.20031106010629.00b609e0@p...> you write:

><?xml version="1.0"?>
><!ENTITY alef "&#x05D0;">
>...

>And here's the document entity mydoc.xml:

><?xml version="1.0"?>
><!DOCTYPE doc [
><!ENTITY hebrew SYSTEM "hebrew.ent">
>]>
>...

>What kind of entity is "alef"? I know it's a general entity, but that's not
>precice enough, and "external general entity" is the whole file.

The XML spec itself doesn't provide a precise term for this, though it
does use the term "external markup declarations" for declarations in
the external subset(s).

I would call it an externally-declared internal entity.  You can add
"general" and "parsed" to that if you want to be especially verbose.

-- Richard

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