>The point I was trying to make (which I see now has nothing to do with >transclusion) does concern whether an entity referenced by a syntactic entity >reference must be accessed and parsed. According to 8879, it must >but, as Steve correctly points out, the application -- as with any >pcdata -- may choose whether or not to show it to the user after >parsing it. > >The only way to avoid this required access and parsing is to use an entity >attribute. If this is indeed the letter of the law, then the law is not very applicable to XML. As I pointed out before, once there are restrictions on the structure of entities, the *need* for accessing the entities is removed.Received on Wednesday, 30 October 1996 10:07:40 EST
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