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Subject: Re: [xsl] use cases for d-o-e From: naha@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:22:29 -0500 (EST) |
Quoting David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > That's a question only relevant for humans. Software doesn't benefit > > from using entity references. > > quite so, the main use of the MathML entity refs is for two line > examples to put in MathML tutorials. Once you get to real sized > expressions being generated by machine to be read by other machines > then they are more trouble than they are worth. One of the reasons for adopting an XML notation is so that such intermediate documents are human-readable. I'm curious why the XML infoset didn't provide for unexpanded entity references. Aside from being parsed and serialized, the only other operation they'd need to support is name(). I'd think it would take less time to implement this than to read all of the traffic on this list concerning . XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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