conflicting answers

Chris Lovett clovett at microsoft.com
Thu Nov 6 21:12:01 GMT 1997


> >suggesting parameter entity references aren't expanded within the
> >default string in an attdef(?). good, bad and/or ugly? 
> 
> Wrong.  They are supposed to be expanded. -T.
> 
[Chris Lovett] I think the spec says normal references are ok, but
parameter entities are not:

	AttValue ::= '"' ([^<&"] | Reference)* '"' | "'" ([^<&'] |
Reference)* "'"

and Reference doesn't include PEReference:

	Reference ::=  EntityRef | CharRef 




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