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> It's a term from the HTML world, well it's from SGML really and refers to SDATA entities which are an SGML feature not in XML. entities work differently in XHTML and HTML for exactly this reason, and just trying to hide the differences by using the same terminology in both cases leads in teh end to confusion rather than simplification. > which I would suggest anyone to use. normally it doesn't do much harm but sometimes it can be particularly confusing, as here in this thread where a request for presrving (and so generating) entities lead to an answer on how to generate entities (and consequently require a doctype) which wasn't what was wanted. > I would use the term entity reference only in the case an entity > refers to either an external file or more than one character. dangerous to interpret technical definitions in a different way than the spec. > I mean, any sensible man understands what I meant with numeric and named character > references... unfortunately software doesn't follow rules of common sense, it just follows the rules. David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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