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Re: [xml-dev] Alternative "character entity" proposal

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Alternative "character entity" proposal
From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@yahoo.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:42:52 +0200
In-reply-to: <200310211414.PAA29288@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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Richard Tobin wrote:
> The syntax for declaring a single entity is an attribute of the
> form:
> 
>    xmlent:eacute="&#xe9;"

What's wrong with a PI:
  <?xml:decl-entity name="eacute" value="&#xe9;"?>
or
  <?xml:decl-entity eacute="&#xe9;"?>

Except for scoping, of course, but I guess most people will
put their entity definitions at the beginning of the file (or
on the document element) anyway.

J.Pietschmann

References:
- Alternative "character entity" proposal
  - From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

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