Re: [xml-dev] Internal entities removed from XML?

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

> It is not clear to me that it would be any faster, since it involves branches
> that would never be taken if the data contained no user-defined entities.

You're probably a better coder than I am, but if I have "&f;" expanding 
to "foobar", and I want to implement in-place conversion, then I always 
have to have a "lookaside" place, and my read-from-the-source routine 
always has to look to see if the pushback is non-empty, etc.

	/r$