Entity declarations

[John Cowan]

Peter Jones scripsit:

> Can anyone also confirm whether, for a document instance without a DTD,
> I can have free-standing <!ENTITY...> declarations. I.e. entity
> declarations that are not inside a Doctype declaration?

No, you can't.  Declarations other than DOCTYPE declarations can only
occur within a DOCTYPE declaration (the internal subset) or within an
external entity referred to from a DOCTYPE declaration (the external subset).

The DTD (document type definition) is precisely the set of declarations,
so talking of declarations in a document instance "without a DTD" is a
contradiction in terms.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan at ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

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