[thelist] xml ampersand in entity problem

[Denis, David]

I have the following:


<!DOCTYPE data SYSTEM "mydtd.dtd"
[
<!ENTITY foo SYSTEM "http://www.somedomain.com/bin/cgi?x=1&y=2">
]>

<bar>
	&foo;
</bar>

I've had the problem where the parser will choke on the '&' here but using
the entity value '&amp;' just gets sent to the server as is (this is with
MSXML
anyway), just like Tony's problem.  I don't understand why the entity value
isn't replaced in the URL when trying to fetch the resource, that's the way
I understand the spec to read; instead I get '/bin/cgi?x=1&amp;y=2'.  Is
this something wrong in MSXML?


Dave