Why is this JC test not-wf?

[David Megginson]

roddey at us.ibm.com writes:

 > Ok, so I'm running through the James Clark tests with my new parser and I
 > don't exactly understand why not-wf\sa\081.xml is not well formed
 > necessarily. Here is the text:
 > 
 >    <!DOCTYPE doc [
 >    <!ENTITY e SYSTEM "nul">
 >    ]>
 >    <doc a="&e;"></doc>

External entities references are not allowed in attribute values.


All the best,


David

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