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   RE: User passed Arguments for Entities

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  • From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
  • To: XML developers' list <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:13:44 -0800

> No hacking or home-made conventions required if you're using the SP
> toolset (which handles XML as easily as any other kind of SGML).  A
> formal system identifier (FSI) for standard input looks like "<osfd>0".

Something roughly akin to this is using a named pipe, which I used to
do. I'd have a entity declaration dereferencing a named pipe which
would execute the program to return the content. Pretty good for
getting the current date or somesuch.





 

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