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• Subject: Re: Alternative "character entity" proposal
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:42:52 +0200
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Richard Tobin wrote:
> The syntax for declaring a single entity is an attribute of the
> form:
> 
>    xmlent:eacute="é"

What's wrong with a PI:
  <?xml:decl-entity name="eacute" value="&#xe9;"?>
or
  <?xml:decl-entity eacute="&#xe9;"?>

Except for scoping, of course, but I guess most people will
put their entity definitions at the beginning of the file (or
on the document element) anyway.

J.Pietschmann

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