On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 14:31 +0200, Christophe Marchand wrote:
> The question is, why, today, as we have various tools to modify xml
> files, should we persist to use entities !
There are places where zero-argument macro text substitution is very
helpful. For example,
href="&scheme;://&servername;/&docroot;/"
or &productname; in a technical manual for several products.
Having said that, I have yet to see an XML schema language that can
place any constraints on entities. Doing that might require using a
character other than & for entity replacement, or changing XML parsers
to validate the entities as they go.
Liam
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