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On 5/4/2016 4:34 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote: That's a decision that could be addressed by tools, and has been in the past. I tend to think the rush to put XML everywhere fast led to their non-objectification.I should clarify: it's not just that entities don't have identity but that they are not *objects* in the way that elements are. That is, they do not have identity in the parsed result, certainly not in any commonly-used XML processing environment (e.g., XSLT, XQuery, DOM 1 or 2, etc.). Entities are string macros. Mostly, today. Thanks, Simon
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