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XML pre-defines five general entities that can be used without declaring them: & " ' < > They are associated with the names amp, quot, apos, lt and gt. <?xml version="1.0"?> <entities> & is an ampersand. " is a quote. ' is...

It is possible to define one's own general entities. The declaration occurs in the DTD subset, with a name and the associated replacement text. It can then be used in the document using the entity reference syntax &...;, either in text, or in attribute values. <?xml version="1.0"?...

XML fragments, also known under the name of external parsed entities, can be stored in separate files. XML fragments, unlike XML documents, are less restrictive, in that several elements can appear top-level, as well as text nodes. Like an XML document, an external parsed entity may begin with an X...