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From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>   <!-- latin capital letter E with grave, U+00C8 ISOlat1 &#201; -->
>   <!ENTITY eacute "&eacute;">
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> That would be a very dangerous file. It could be considered a denial of
> service attack: It will put any XML parser into an infinite loop if it
> ever finds an instance of &eacute;.

An entity that recursively references itself is not well-formed. Parsers are
supposed to check for that.

Bob


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