entities in SXML

  Hello,

  the SXML specification allows only one sort of entities, namely,
unexpanded entities. The only use for them is in XMLs like this:

[code]
<!DOCTYPE zzz [
...
<!ENTITY figure1 SYSTEM "image1.cgm" NDATA CGM>
...
]>
<img entity="figure1"/>
[/code]

  But I want to use "normal" entities:

[code]
&product;&nbsp;&mdash; AAA
[/code]

  Unfortunately, this sort of entities doesn't fit to SXML specification.
So I'm going to use my SXML dialect for them (*REF* is for "reference"):

[code]
... (*REF* "product") (*REF* "nbsp") (*REF* "mdash") " AAA" ...
[/code]

  Any objection to the approach? Will you use the same method if you will
need such entities?

  Notes.

1. I found a letter in archives:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7743681

  It suggests trying a the existing SXML notation *ENTITY*. But, in my
opinion, it's just an ugly workaround, not a clean solution.

2. Please look at the sample XML above. One can't convert it to SXML tree
without losing information that the entity name was "figure1" (but I don't
know if it is a problem or not).

-- 
Oleg Paraschenko


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