Re: PEReferences in comments

Ron Bourret (rbourret@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:44:37 +0200

> However, it leads to the
> question: is the sequence "%foo;" in a comment, where "foo" is not
> a known parameter entity, an error? Clearly, I say, it is not an
> error, but I cannot produce any warrant for this.

David Brownell's answer was the most palatable:

"PE references are to be expanded in various places including
markup declarations ... but comments aren't declarations. See
the paragraph before rule [28] and ignore the "markupdecl"
construct, which could have been better named ("dtdcontent"
or somesuch)."

It also excludes expanding PEReferences in PIs and IGNORE sections.

-- Ron