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From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
 
> 2. XInclude can use XPointers to select only part of a remote 
> document. Entities can't.

A SYSTEM identifier in an entity declaration can be any URI. 
All that would be needed was a version of XML to say "interpret
XPointers".

> 3. XInclude can include unparsed text, useful for examples in XML 
> books and such. Entities can only refer to XML.

This was a feature of SGML excluded from XML. It could be reintroduced
merely by adding the CDATA keyword on entity declarations.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe


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