* Mukul Gandhi wrote:
>These productions imply that doctypedecl is optional. So, shouldn't
>the above XML be a legal XML? Can somebody please point to the
>relevant section of the XML spec, where the above XML proves to be
>illegal.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#wf-entdeclared

>Can I anyhow successfully parse the above XML? for e.g., using a
>custom entity resolver, or using a catalog file.

You could make the document "XML" by adding a proper document type
declaration, and then parse it as usual, for instance.
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