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Eric van der Vlist wrote: >This does add an extra layer of processing and is likely to collide with >defined entities (what if I have defined a "nbsp" -standing for number >of spaces" entity as "7" in my DTD?). > > Well, defining your own entity called "nbsp" would make you very adventurous Eric ;-) That is one design flaw in only having a single delimiter for named references: there is the possibility of clashing entity definitions. Which is why I think in general it is good if "&" is kept for characters and some other reference system (XInclude or whatever) is preferred for macro-inclusion of strings or fragments. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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