entities in DTD

[Dormilich]

Hi,

I got a strange behaviour (FF 3) of entities in my xml files.

I have an element (see xml listing), where the attribute/content contains a latin1 entity (ö), but FF throws an error (entity not defined). the only workaround for that is to define the entities directly in the local xml DTD

anyone knows, how I can get the latin1 entities work in the external DTD?

thanks in advance

external DTD:

<!DOCTYPE kbl [
// does not work
 <!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC
   "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN"
   "xhtml-lat1.ent">
%HTMLlat1;
// works
<!ENTITY % relnavi SYSTEM "dtd.link.ent">
%relnavi;
<!ENTITY % dcmi SYSTEM "dtd.dublincore.ent">
%dcmi;
 
<!ELEMENT kbl           (seite+)>
<!ATTLIST kbl
    xmlns               CDATA   #REQUIRED
    xmlns:dcterms       CDATA   #IMPLIED
    xmlns:link          CDATA   #IMPLIED
>
 
<!-- further element declaration here -->
]>

xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE kbl SYSTEM "struktur.dtd" [
// workaround for latin1 entities
<!ENTITY nbsp   " "> 
<!ENTITY Auml   "Ä"> 
<!ENTITY Ouml   "Ö"> 
<!ENTITY Uuml   "Ü"> 
<!ENTITY auml   "ä"> 
<!ENTITY ouml   "ö"> 
<!ENTITY uuml   "ü"> 
<!ENTITY szlig   "ß">
<!-- other latin1 entities -->
]>
<kbl
    xmlns="http://www.kulturbeutel-leipzig.net/XML/struktur"
    xmlns:link="http://www.kulturbeutel-leipzig.net/XML/link"
    xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
 
<!-- further elements here -->
// here the "&ouml;" causes the problem
    <link:author title="Sebastian B&ouml;hner">main.php?f=jeder#h06</link:author>
</kbl>

[drhowarddrfine]

This may be old (2006) but Firefox doesn't read external xml entities:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...x.html?ca=drs-

But they offer a solution.