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   Re: [xml-dev] entity definitions

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At 5:36 PM -0400 4/27/04, Amelia A Lewis wrote:

>Thanks for the pointers.  Both of these efforts, though, appear to me to
>address a slightly different subset of the problem (both are primarily
>concerned with character entities only, for one thing).
>
>I'd like to have an XML format for defining replacement content.


If that's the case, just use XInclude. XInclude is certainly too 
heavyweight to replace character entities, but it works better than 
entities ever did when it comes to larger chunks of replacement 
content.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
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