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• Subject: Re: When to check entity WFness according to 4.3.2
• From: richard@i... (Richard Tobin)
• Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:23:35 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <002801c4bb61$97f871c0$9e539696@citkwaclaww2k>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>The only case when (c) does not catch the WF violation is when
>the entity is never referenced. That is, Expat will not catch this:

><!DOCTYPE doc [
><!ELEMENT doc (#PCDATA)>
><!ENTITY e "<foo>abc</not_foo>">
>]>
><doc></doc>

Just to reiterate what I said earlier: expat is right not to report
this as an error, because the document is well-formed, even though
the entity "e" is not.

-- Richard

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