Help w/ Entity Reference SAXParserException

[wac]

I get the following SaxParseException when using the doctype below.

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Parameter entity references must not appear within markup declarations in the internal DTD subset.

However, this works find in tomcat. I only get the error when using WebSphere Application Server (An IBM Web Server). I'm guessing that it doesn't like where I'm using the percent entity inside the definition of another entity. Basically, all I'm trying to do is to be able to enter the % symbol, which unfortunately, has a special meaning in the entity syntax. Does anyone know of a better (actually, ANY) way that works in both tomcat and Websphere????

NOTE: in the code below, there's no space between the '&' and the '#' in the definition of the percent entity. I couldn't figure out how else to stop the browser from converting it to a literal %.

<!DOCTYPE viewset [
<!ENTITY stddisplaymenu SYSTEM "stddisplaymenu.xml">
<!ENTITY stdselectmenu SYSTEM "stdselectmenu.xml">
<!ENTITY stdfiltermenu SYSTEM "stdfiltermenu.xml">
<!ENTITY stdviewmenu SYSTEM "stdviewmenu.xml">
<!ENTITY stdqdlistmenu SYSTEM "stdqdlistmenu.xml">
<!ENTITY stdmonitormenu SYSTEM "stdmonitormenu.xml">
<!ENTITY stdmonitorprop SYSTEM "stdmonitorprop.xml">

<!ENTITY stdalarmitems SYSTEM "stdalarmitems.xml" >
<!ENTITY percent "& #37;" >
<!ENTITY alarmwidth "20&percent;" >
<!ENTITY alarm1stcol "c_UserName" >
]>

[]|V|[agnus]

My site would throw XML parsing errors in Thunderbird's rendering of the site when attempting to serve it as application/xhtml+xml because of named entities. Changing them to their numeric equivalent solved the issue. Perhaps try &_#37; instead of &_percent; ? (Removing the underscores, of course.)

[wac]

That didn't help either...
WebSphere App Server sux.
Everything works fine with tomcat but we're suppose to also support WebShere.
Now I gotta change all my XMLs to not use entity refs. :mad:

[]|V|[agnus]

Bummer, man. Good luck!