Entity not recognised by Firefox

[tcstom]

Hi, I have an XML document which parses fine in IE but gives the following error in Firefox:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity:
<OPTION value="Radio 1" selected="true">Radio 1 &nbsp; </OPTION>

It's pointing at &nbsp; but I do have the following line in my DTD:

<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">

Anyone know the problem?

Tom

 

[tsuji]

>[tt]<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">[/tt]
The standard declaration looks like this?
[tt]<!ENTITY nbsp CDATA "&#160;">[/tt]

 

[tcstom]

If I add that it fails to parse in IE ('External ID is invalid' in relation to the CDATA part of that DTD line) as well as Firefox (same error as before)! Thanks for the comment, but it must be something else...

Tom

 

[JontyMC]

I think in Firefox you cannot use external DTD entities, they must be inline. This is certainly true of earlier versions, but maybe later ones can.

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[tcstom]

Oh, OK, that's rubbish! Firefox has failed me... who'd have thought it! Thanks for the advice Jon.

Tom

 

[tcstom]

Further to this, the article

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XML_in_Mozilla

suggests that Firefox is designed to work this way. But does this mean that if my DTD contains entities then it must be included inline within the XML file? This isn't really convenient for my purposes... suggestions welcome.

Tom