>> Is it in the spirit of XML to let the parser expand the entity
>> references back to themselves? For example, in the above
>> situation, is this a reasonable thing to do:
>
>> <!ENTITY euro "&amp;euro;">
>
>  That doesn't "expand to itself".  That defines an entity whose the
>value is a string (and that string is the same as the lexical
>representation of a entity reference).
>
>  Regards,
>
>--drkm

Yes, of course. Thanks.

Mike