RE: use cases for d-o-e

>entities are designed to be author shortcut facility, the whole point is
>thatyou can use an entity to give a shorthand and any XML application
>essentially won't see it, it's just a syntactic variation like using "
>or ' around attribute values.

I was also under the impression, probably mistaken, that entities can also
cut processing time. especially in the case of:
>Xpath arranges this by fully expanding entities as the first thing it
>does and never "seeing" them at all.



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