Validating Entities (was Re: XML Torture Test: Parsers Fail)

[David Megginson]

Richard L. Goerwitz writes:

 > (Incidentally, does it bother anyone else that you can have valid docu-
 > ments that aren't well-formed?  Imagine an external entity used inside
 > an attribute value?  If declared in such a way that a non-validating
 > parser doesn't realize it's external, then the validating parser will
 > reject it as an error (can't have external entities in this context).
 > There are other such cases, although this is the main one that comes
 > to mind.)

This seems to be an example of a well-formed document that's not
valid, not of a valid document that's not well-formed.  Can you
elaborate?


Thanks, and all the best,


David

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