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I think external entities could have been much more effective if done differently: "If the document contains an entity reference ¶m; then the application invoking the parser must provide a value for param, using a parser-defined API". Requiring them to be defined in a syntactically-complex DTD file is just too inflexible to be worth the candle. Michael Kay Saxonica > On 26 Feb 2019, at 20:10, Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 26/02/2019 19:50, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> For the record, retaining external and internal text entities in XML was a mistake. It's something I fought for at the time and now >> regret every time it comes up. > > I would venture to disagree now, as I disagreed then, and for the > same reasons. > >> The XML community has been wise in forgetting that text entities were ever a feature. > > Fortunately it hasn't :-) > > ///Peter
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