Re: [xml-dev] A heavier-weight proposal for character entity definition

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> writes:

> Interesting. I'm not 100% clear on the purpose of this, but anyway a
> couple of notes.

Thanks for the corrections.

> First the include element should probably be left to XInclude to define.

I'd rather not -- remember that _if_ this flies it will be something
all XML parsers will have to support at the base level -- decoding
such definition entities will be welded in to the XML n.m
specification.  So it needs to be as light-weight as possible while
still providing useful functionality.

ht
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