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So it does not get lost in the discussions, item 2 below is a
critical need we are always coming up against: i.e. the need to be
able to process the file and leave the 'entities' in there for
expansion later in the pipeline.
This is a major problem with entities as they stand and any
replacement should address this also (some do by default).
Robin La Fontaine
At 6:01 pm -0400 21/10/03, John Cowan wrote:
>Richard Tobin scripsit:
>
>> >Is scoping really necessary?
>>
>> Yes, it's the main reason that the existing DTD mechanism is
>> inadequate.
>
>I think the main reasons (they work in concert) that the DTD mechanism is
>inadequate are:
>
>1) external DTDs are convenient, but there's no guarantee they'll be
> processed;
>
>2) internal DTDs are inconvenient, and XSLT provides no way to regenerate
> them after a transformation.
>
>--
>John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com
>www.ccil.org/~cowan
>Original line from _The Warrior's Apprentice_ by Lois McMaster Bujold:
>"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
>English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
>lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."
>
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