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• From: Dawn Volkman <dawn@b...>
• To: XML-DEV <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:24:43 -0500

Dear all, 

I am thinking of using CDATA sections for snippets of perl code
that exist on the pages of my document.  However, I didn't 
want me or anyone creating my documents to have to type out <![CDATA[  and ]]>
   everytime because it is tiresome and prone to errors.  I thought that giving
these sections a more meaningful and shorter name would get rid of errors, so 
I created entities -- but they don't work.  
Perhaps what I am trying to do just can't be done, but any ideas or pointers
would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

snippets of my xml look like this:

<page>
Here is my page and I have some 

&startcode;
code right here 
&endcode;

that I will be using later
</page>


snippets of my dtd look like this:

<!ELEMENT page (#PCDATA)>
<!ENTITY startcode "<![CDATA[">
<!ENTITY endcode "]]>">

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