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On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 15:34 -0500, Eliot Kimber wrote: > I should clarify: it's not just that entities don't have identity but > that they are not *objects* in the way that elements are. That is, > they do not have identity in the parsed result, certainly not in any > commonly-used XML processing environment (e.g., XSLT, XQuery, DOM 1 > or 2, etc.). To the extent that DOM has objects at all it does have external parsed entity objects [1]. I used to like that in the Serna editor you could edit an external entity's contents in-place and all other references would update in place. > Entities are string macros. In partcular, fixed-argument (for external entities) and zero-argument (internal) string macros. Liam [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-11C98490 -- Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w...> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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