(Tim Bray) writes:
>For publishing-oriented apps of XML, we're nowhere near being able to
>do away with entities, and the state of the art for handling them is
>not very advanced.
I've chosen entities mostly because there's a tremendous amount of
possibility here - lowest entry cost (now that I've written a parser,
anyway, though I think libxml might provide similar access), greatest
possibility for making my own work life simple.
I suspect that a lot of the challenges around entities have to do with
the question of what constitutes an advance. It seems like a case where
coming up with a sample processor is a better way to gauge people's
opinions than discussion, so I'll see what I can come up with.
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Simon St.Laurent
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