XML 1.0 spec appears to violate itself

Richard Tobin richard at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Tue Aug 24 15:24:05 BST 1999


>   <!ENTITY lt     "<">

You're right, it's wrong.

Most non-validating parsers will ignore declarations of the built-in
entities, so it may well not be detected.

-- Richard

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