Entities as template placeholders?

[Nicolas MONNET]

(Using Perl+Expat)

I'm writing a temlpate system. Original is XML. Is it legal / sensible to
use entitites as template place holders? Like, vairable or something.

Example (bogus):

(...)
<SET NAME="var" VALUE="Great">
<HTML:IMG SRC="truc.gif" ALT="&var;">
(..)

The HTML:IMG's ALT parameter will then contain "Great".

What do you guys think?

Then, is it ok to use a colon in an entity name? I knkow, I should do my
homework.

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