> In that last parenthetical phrase... can you give an example of the latter
> scenario, i.e. "in an
> external parameter entity"? Just want to make sure I understand what's being
> said.
Sure. I'm going to declare some entities internal and external,
hopefully with self-explanatory names. Here is the main document,
example.xml:
<!DOCTYPE SYSTEM "example.dtd" [
<!ENTITY internallyDeclaredInternal "foo">
<!ENTITY internallyDeclaredExternal SYSTEM "foo.ent">
]>
etc. etc.
Then here is the external subset, example.dtd:
<!ENTITY externallyDeclaredInternal "foo">
<!ENTITY externallyDeclaredExternal SYSTEM "foo2.ent">
<!ENTITY % externalParameterEntity SYSTEM "example.par">
%externalParameterEntity;
etc. etc.
Then here is a parameter entity, example.par:
<!ENTITY inExternalPEDeclaredInternal "foo">
<!ENTITY inExternalPEDeclaredExternal SYSTEM "foo3.ent">
And so on.
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