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Re: Internal entities removed from XML?

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Internal entities removed from XML?
• From: =?UTF-8?B?QmlsbCBkZSBow5NyYQ==?= <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:36:51 +0000
• Cc: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• Organization: Propylon
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> I remember asking about this a while ago and the 
> answer  was related to last minute code changes for 
> perf reasons. 

Sigh, premature optimization. The thing to do would to leave entity 
expansion on by default, but allow it to be turned off, for perf 
reasons. That way you ship compliant libraries and leave 
optimization driven subsetting to developers.


Bill de hÃ?ra
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Propylon
www.propylon.com

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