Quotes in PEReferences

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Fri Aug 7 18:47:21 BST 1998


Tim Bray wrote:
 
> At 11:17 AM 8/7/98 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> ><!ENTITY % StartEntity "<!ENTITY">
> >%StartEntity; Foo "Foo">
> >
> >Ugh, yuck.  But WF.
> 
> Nope.  Check out the WF constraint "Proper Declaration/PE Nesting"
> on production [29] in section 2.8.

Like I keep saying, that's a *validity* constraint.  Documents with DTDs
like the above aren't valid, but they *are* WF, unless someone can
show a WF constraint they violate.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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