• To: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@c...>
• Subject: Re: XML Indirection Facility
• From: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:50:49 -0400
• Cc: "'Robin Cover'" <robin@i...>, XML-DEV Discussion <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <BD2DBD26EE0BAA48B1A425C7BE7923002D04D2@c...>; from MDubinko@c... on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:26:37PM -0700
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:26:37PM -0700, Micah Dubinko wrote:
> Are there any examples of how this would be used?
> 
> How does this relate to text entities? -m

In writing the W3C Team Comment on this Submission,

    http://www.w3.org/Submission/2003/02/Comment

I noted the following:

*  Since entities are replaced by their content during XML parsing,
   they are fragile: they may not survive a cycle of editing a
   document and then saving it.

*  Not all uses of XML support the definition of XML entities; for example,
   SOAP payloads cannot define them.

*  XIndirect is a way to represent the fact of indirection in markup:
   it is semantic, whereas an approach using entities is syntactic.

I hope this helps.

Liam


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