THE XML SPECIFICATION GUIDE

Errata for Chapter 3, Part 1

Page 40, Section 3.3.2, three entity declarations at start of section:

The three declarations, for part0, part1, and part2, are all missing the % character that should appear in front of the entity name. The correct declarations should look like:

<!ENTITY % part0
      "<!ELEMENT grumpy ANY>"
>

and so on.
However, there is a more fundamental error in this description/explanation -- items 1 and 2 in this section are in error. The error, and a correct explanation, are found in the next errata item:

Page 40, Section 3.3.2, description of parameter entity replacement (items 1 and 2):

The description in the text is incorrect. In fact, no whitespace is added around a parameter entity when it is itself inside a parameter entity. Thus, given the following example:

<!ENTITY % part0        "<!ELEMENT g ANY>"   >
<!ENTITY % part1 "%part0;<!ELEMENT s ANY>"   >
<!ENTITY % part2 "%part1;<!ELEMENT o ANY>"   >
<!ELEMENT Fo ANY>%part2;<!ELEMENT Bo ANY>

then the replacement text for %part2; will yield:

<!ELEMENT Fo ANY> <!ELEMENT g ANY><!ELEMENT s ANY><!ELEMENT o ANY> <!ELEMENT Bo ANY>

where whitespace is added only around %part2, and only because it is not itself inside another PE (parameter entity).
This error is also found, using somewhat different wording, on page 243, and 247.

Page 43, first line, error in markup (missing quote)

The first line is missing a closing quote for the value of the tasty attribute. The corrected line should read (correction in red)
< menu tasty="&misused;">

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