@@ 20,6 20,9 @@ following ways:
  * DOCTYPE declarations are ignored; all other declarations (<! ... >)
    are rejected except for CDATA, which is handled properly
 
+ * It follows from the above that only built-in named entities and
+   character entities are decoded (but those ones are)
+
  * Comments appearing before or after the root element are ignored;
    other comments are included in the parsed tree
 

          

@@ 173,7 173,7 @@ structure SubXml :> SUBXML = struct
                 
         fun entity pos cc =
             let fun entity' decoder pos text [] =
-                    error pos "Document ends during hex character entity"
+                    error pos "Document ends during character entity"
                   | entity' decoder pos text (c :: rest) =
                     if c <> #";"
                     then entity' decoder (pos+1) (c :: text) rest