[relaxng-user] RELAX NG and system entities

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Matthew Burgess wrote:

>
> From what I can gather, being a complete newbie to RELAX NG, system 
> entities aren't usable with RELAX NG (and schema languages in general).
>
The two are unrelated, really. Entity expansion takes place at the XML 
parsing stage, before validation by schema
is applied. Any XML processor has to read a DTD subset, grok the 
entities declared there, and expand instances later.
You can't _declare_ entities in a schema, as you used to be able to with 
external DTDs, thats the difference.

Your example will carry on working just fine, if you just remove
   SYSTEM "myDoctype.dtd"
and use a RelaxNG validator or other XML tool. Well, maybe some tools
will protest, but the ones I use daily (jing, libxml2, rnv) do
what I expect.

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