Re: a discussion proposal for addressing 'the character entity problem'

Liam Quin scripsit:

> The down side, of course, is that as soon as you load the document in
> your favourite XML editor and then save, chances are that the character
> names got lost.  So, this is just another use case to add.

An XML editor that has no mode that preserves entity references is
not much of an editor, and certainly shouldn't be used for doco-XML.

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