Betty,

I'm not seeing this behavior in IE 5.00.2314.1003.

Below are the steps and results.  Did you follow
different steps?

Bill


What I see in IE when I open test.xml:
-----------------
  <!DOCTYPE myfile (View Source for full doctype...)> 
- <myfile>
- <a>
  <a1>aaaa</a1> 
  <b1>bbbb</b1> 
  </a>
- <abc>
- <a>
  <a1>aaaa</a1> 
  <b1>bbbb</b1> 
  </a>
  </abc>
- <def>
  "DEF 
- <x>
  <y1>yyyy</y1> 
  <z1>zzzz</z1> 
  </x>
  "DEF 
  </def>
- <x>
  <y1>yyyy</y1> 
  <z1>zzzz</z1> 
  </x>
  </myfile>
-----------------

I'm using the following input files, verbatim:

test.xml
-----------------
<!DOCTYPE myfile [
<!ENTITY item1 SYSTEM "item1.xml">
<!ENTITY item2 SYSTEM "item2.xml">
]>
<myfile>
&item1;
<abc>&item1;</abc>
<def>
  DEF&item2;DEF
</def>
&item2;
</myfile>
-----------------

item1.xml
-----------------
<a>
<a1>aaaa</a1>
<b1>bbbb</b1>
</a>
-----------------

item2.xml
-----------------
<x>
<y1>yyyy</y1>
<z1>zzzz</z1>
</x>
-----------------




--- Betty Harvey <harvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am experiencing strange behaviour from IE 5.0 and
> File Entities.
> 
> If everything is in the file, no file entities, it
> looks
> beautiful.
> 
> When I have the following:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE myfile [
> <!ENTITY item1 SYSTEM "item1.xml">
> <!ENTITY item2 SYSTEM "item2.xml">
> ]>
> <myfile>
>    .
>    .
>    .
>   &item1;
>   &item2;
>    .
>    .
> </myfile>
> 
> IE 5.0 displays &item1; and &item2; before the front
> matter of
> the document, then displays it again in the right
> location.  Even
> when I take reference to &item1; and &item2; out of
> the
> document document and leave the ENTITY references in
> the document
> they still display, even though they aren't being
> referenced.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this behaviour?  If so,
> are there
> any workarounds?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Betty
> 
>
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