On 5/4/2016 4:34 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I should clarify: it's not just that entities don't have identity but that
> they are not *objects* in the way that elements are. That is, they do not
> have identity in the parsed result, certainly not in any commonly-used XML
> processing environment (e.g., XSLT, XQuery, DOM 1 or 2, etc.).
That's a decision that could be addressed by tools, and has been in the
past. I tend to think the rush to put XML everywhere fast led to their
non-objectification.
> Entities are string macros.
>
Mostly, today.
Thanks,
Simon
