• From: ht@i... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:22:36 +0100

Read the spec [1], guys:

  4.4.7 Bypassed

    When a general entity reference appears in the EntityValue in an
    entity declaration, it must be bypassed and left as is.

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#bypass
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