[ expat-Bugs-413551 ] internal parameter entities not handled
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Bugs item #413551, was updated on 2001-04-03 15:41
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: internal parameter entities not handled
Initial Comment:
In the attached file there are 2 entities that are
misinterpreted.
&test; - the entity definition compiles but causes
and error when referenced, yet it is cleary legal and
should produce the output listed in the comment.
&book; - this is an entity example taken from the
XML recommendation. The parameter entity
reference within the book entity declaration causes
and error. The recommendation is clear that this
should work.
I consider these to be high priority.
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2001-04-06 08:22
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Re the &test; entity. There was a typo in the example
file. If you close of the element the entity is still
incorrect. After the comments on this I did some more
investigation and discovered the problem. Its the
difference between ' and ' both of which
represent the character ' and both of which expat
understands.
However ' is a character reference and thus is
expanded to create the entity replacement text. This is
what you need for to generate the attr = "value". '
is a general entity, eventhough it is predefined. Thus it
is not expanded and the replacement text becomes:
attr = 'value'
This is why the entity definition is correct but the usage
is not. Sorry about that. I missed the sentence in the
XML spec that defines the entity type for ' etc.
Conclusion expat does the right thing with the test entity
in all forms I have tried.
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Comment By: Paul Prescod (prescod)
Date: 2001-04-05 13:17
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I went to download this to look at it but it turns out I didn't have to look at it very closely. Internet Explorer
gives a correct error message:
"Parameter entities cannot be used inside markup declarations in an internal subset. Line 9, Position 4"
"Well-formedness constraint: PEs in Internal Subset
In the internal DTD subset, parameter-entity references can occur only where markup declarations can
occur, not within markup declarations. (This does not apply to references that occur in external parameter
entities or to the external subset.)"
I'll leave it to Fred to close but I don't think there is a bug here.
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-04-05 12:36
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[ Testing configuration of the bugs mailing list. ]
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-04-04 21:19
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Regarding the &test; reference: this is not legal. The entity does not close the <element/> element, so cannot actually be used.
I still need to dig into the &book; issue.
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-04-04 18:41
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Assigned to me to at least determine if this is still a problem with the CVS version.
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2001-04-03 15:43
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This was tested against version expat 1.2 from
jclark.com.
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