XSchema: unparsed entities

[John Cowan]

Ron Bourret scripsit:

> One other difference I'd like to point out is that, with the exception of the
> "escape character" entities (lt, gt, amp, quot, and apos), I don't think you can
> construct an XML file with parsed entities that you cannot construct without
> them.

Actually, they too can be "compiled out" by clever use of character
references:  see the table in clause 4.6 of XML 1.0.

> This is not true of unparsed entities.  Not only would an UnparsedEntity
> element rectify this problem, it would also solve the validation problem pointed
> out by John Cowan with respect to ENTITY attributes: we can't validate their
> value without unparsed entity declarations.

Okay, I'm convinced.  (Note also that SAX supports them.)

How about:

<!ELEMENT UnparsedEntityDef>
<!ATTLIST UnparsedEntityDef
	Name CDATA #REQUIRED
	SystemLiteral CDATA #REQUIRED
	PubidLiteral CDATA #IMPLIED
	Notation CDATA #REQUIRED>

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