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James Clark wrote: > Interesting. Those are compelling use cases but this significantly > complicates things. In particular, automatically using entities on > output becomes much more complicated. Instead of a simple hash table > that maps character codes to entities, you have to have a trie. I also > see a slippery slope opening up here: Indeed. In practice, it seems that giving characters names creates very few problems, while general-purpose macros of zero arguments (aka entities) are very expensive. Maybe there's an 80/20 point for math and the rest of the special-character-intensive communities with some form of single-character-replacement. -Tim
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