Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

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Rick Jelliffe <>
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Date
2002-11-03T05:26:57Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
> Mike Champion scripsit:
> 
> > It would seem to me that ALL the "syntax sugar preprocessing" --
> > entity resolution and substitution, CDATA section processing, attribute
> > default value insertion, maybe XInclude resolution -- belongs 
> > in some preprocessor step.
 
That is a matter of layering, but not of management: there needs to be
a way of naming and bundling pre- and post-parse constraints adopted.  

Why should a user have to distinguish between "what elements can I use?"
and "what standard entities can I use?".

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe