> BTW, on a side-note I am having a problem understanding whether the
> external subset or the internal subset should be parsed first. I
> would assume that the external subset should go first, but in this
> case it would make using INCLUDE and IGNORE sections to be pretty
> useless. This is something that is not clarified as far as I can
> tell in the 1.0 spec so if someone could clarify how this should be
> handled by a parser, then I would greatly appreciate it.
The internal DTD subset is parsed first, so that entity declarations
there take priority over those in the external subset -- I don't have
time to check the actual language of the spec right now, however.
All the best,
David
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