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>>3) Does anyone have an opinion on how &entities; can best be used with a >>database application? For example, assume you declare in your DTD a list >>of &entities;, one for each database field name/value. If we are to >>expect browsers to parse an xml document with entities, how can a found >>table or hit list of values get substituted? > >I'm not sure entities are the way to go for this. WHy not just generate >your HTML or XML on the fly the way any number of excellent products >do right now? -Tim But these database products don't currently comply with XML markup standards. Granted they're server-side apps so it's not a real problem, while XML seems largely designed from a client-side perspective. But I think it important to extend the syntax standards of XML to server-side apps as well. For example, a database &fieldname; entity could be the proper markup for a database CGI to insert field data rather than perhaps an <ELEMENT>. Which leads to another question... I doubt declared &entity; names can have a space (e.g. &field name;)? Can they? I'd love to hear from anyone with opinions on how best to meld XML templates with databases services. Eric Bickford eric@m... Web Broadcasting Corporation http://macweb.com/ Web Essentials for FileMaker Pro WEB FM, PICT FM, LOG FM, TAG FM xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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