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<span class="PROGRAMLISTING"><pre><strong class="userinput">&amp;</strong><var class="replaceable">name</var><strong class="userinput">;</strong></pre></span>
<p> General entity references are
recognized only within the parsed character data in the body of an
XML document. They may appear within the parsed character data
contained between element start- and end-tags, or within the value of
an attribute. They are not recognized within a
document's DTD (except inside default values for
attributes) or within <span class="LITERAL">CDATA</span> sections.</p>

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<p>The sequence of operations that occurs when a parsed general entity
is included by the XML parser can lead to interesting side effects.
An entity's replacement text is, in turn, read by
the parser. If character or general entity replacements exist in the
entity replacement text, they are also parsed and included as parsing
continues.</p>
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