Re: CDATA - Can I have XML ?

Is it poor design to use these character entities?

This is an excellent question.
With my documentary biases, I'd like to see the containing XML have the necessary declarations so you could use your character entities transparently. In the kind of systems I have experience with (mainly publishing systems of various kinds) I believe this could be done fairly straightforwardly in most cases, although it's admittedly something else to manage.

btw, wouldn't XInclude or XLink a better solution?

Cheers,
Wendell

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