External Entities A Field Guide (was RE: Feeler for SML (SimpleMarkup Language))

Gavin Thomas Nicol gtn at ebt.com
Sun Nov 21 13:34:14 GMT 1999


> This is my statement and I stand by it. In my experience the at-scale
> use of external parsed entities for re-use has only ever led to pain.

Fine. Let's agree to disagree, because my experience building at-scale
systems that *rely* on external entities has been positive (though
again, perhaps it's more that the use was largely hidden and not
so not under direct control of the people involved).


xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)





More information about the Xml-dev mailing list