Re: The XSL-List Digest V1 #266

Subject: Re: Understanding character handling

>>   The need for this is very real. If we can't write entity references in
our
>> result document, we're reduced to using all manner of horrible kludges
to make
>> our viewers see the right thing. Who wants to do...
>
>Why is this a problem.   is just the character &#160 ...

That's fine for character entities.

It doesn't address general entities. Remember, an entity may represent an
extended block of data, possibly external to this file, and possibly not
being XML-formatted. We have to be able to refer to those by entity name.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research
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