On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:04:09 -0800, Robert Koberg <> wrote:
> Amelia A Lewis wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:20:42PM +0200, Toni Uusitalo wrote:
<snip/>
> > At present, there's no apparent activity targeted toward providing an
> > alternate entity-definition mechanism.
>
> Don't know if you followed the Ant(ish) thread but we use Ant and its
> filter capabilities to do what entities do. For example, on copying
> files(ets) like:
>
> <p>blah blah @psuedoentity@ blah<p>
>
> is replaced with its property definition.
>
> Alternatively you could use XInclude.
>
> Entities blow and are unnecessary.
Sure, or just use XSLT and a bunch of other attached machinery.
Somehow this strikes me like telling someone that they don't need a
trunk on their favorite sports car and if they really want to haul
groceries around they should go buy a 20 ton dump truck...
(Not that I'm a fan of entities either.)
--
Peter Hunsberger
