Re: [xml-dev] Getting rid of entities (was: misprocessing namespaces)

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John Cowan <>
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Rob Lugt <>
Date
2002-02-05T11:02:49Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Getting rid of entities (was: misprocessing namespaces)
Rob Lugt scripsit:

> I disagree.  For document authors and editors (and here I am refering to
> humans not machines) external general entities are a simple, compact and
> convenient way to assemble document content.  I can understand that
> XML-as-data would have little need for GEs, but XML-as-text benefits greatly
> from their existence.

Yes, but everything they do is subsumed by XInclude, which can also
include-as-text and include partial documents.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              
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