Re: Nested entity declarations in DTDs

"Liam R. E. Quin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.devel
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On Sun, 2022-03-13 at 20:04 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure of the consequences of "Non-Normative" in the section
> heading. 

It means that if there's a contradiction, the non-normative part should
be ignored; it's intended to explain rather than to constrain.

>  The way I read the related text is that they explain expected
> behavior but also call this method error-prone to warn XML writers of
> relying on this feature because of to-be-expected incompatibilities
> with some implementations, 

No - the expectation is that implementations will get this right; it's
just tricky for human users :)

Best,

Liam

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