incorrect entity reference usage?

[Matthew L. Avizinis]

I have declared the followed at the beginning of an xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>

<!DOCTYPE section [
<!ENTITY % XHTML-lat1 PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1//EN//XML"
   "XHTML-DTD/XHTML-lat1.ent">
   %XHTML-lat1;
<!ENTITY % lesson SYSTEM "../../p1-p2.dtd">
        %lesson;
]>

<section xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="iwcpe.xsd">
        <title>Course 1</title>
        &diagquiz_p1_c1;&studyquiz_p1_c1;&finalquiz_p1_c1;
        &diagquiz_p1_c2;&studyquiz_p1_c2;&finalquiz_p1_c2;
</section>

and the following in a dtd (p1-p2.dtd) defining the entities:

<!ENTITY diagquiz_p1_c1 SYSTEM "Part_1/Course_1/diagquiz_c1.xml">
<!ENTITY finalquiz_p1_c1 SYSTEM "Part_1/Course_1/finalquiz_c1.xml">
<!ENTITY studyquiz_p1_c1 SYSTEM "Part_1/Course_1/studyquiz_c1.xml">
<!ENTITY diagquiz_p1_c2 SYSTEM "Part_1/Course_2/diagquiz_c2.xml">
<!ENTITY finalquiz_p1_c2 SYSTEM "Part_1/Course_2/finalquiz_c2.xml">
<!ENTITY studyquiz_p1_c2 SYSTEM "Part_1/Course_2/studyquiz_c2.xml">


Is my understanding correct that when these entities are used in the xml
file, that any entities contained in XHTML-lat1.ent are defined not only for
the main xml file but also for the xml files referenced by the entities?
That is, I should be able to use, for instance, &times; in both the main xml
file and in diagquiz_c1.xml and they it should be valid in both when XalanJ
is run?

If this is correct, then XalanJ incorrectly emits an error which states to
the effect -- the entity "&times;" is used but not declared.

Thanks for any input,

   Matthew L. Avizinis <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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