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RE: Parameter entity references

• To: "'Richard Tobin'" <richard@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Parameter entity references
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:07:13 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <200201171434.OAA10679@m...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> I am very wary of proposing errata to fix this kind of thing,
> because it is so easy to produce unintended consequences.

This is an admission that the whole business of parameter entity references
is so fragile that no-one dares touch it in case the whole edifice comes
tumbling down. This is not a good foundation for the e-commerce
infrastructure of the 21st century. When this happens to code that I'm
responsible for, I throw it away and start again.

Mike Kay

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