George
> the error seems to be that he added an 
> equal instead of space

Arghhh well spotted:-)

With apologies to James C my statement that nxml-mode didn't read the
internal entity was completely wrong. If the entity definition is
corrected as George indicates nxml mode happliy validates both the
entity definition and a reference to that entity.

David

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