olpa, OSS developer

My letter to the ssax-sxml mailing list:

Hello,

the SXML specification allows only one sort of entities, namely, unexpanded entities. The only use for them is in XMLs like this:

But I want to use “normal” entities:

jji��nr֦�v쥩��֬��

Unfortunately, this sort of entities doesn’t fit to SXML specification. So I’m going to use my SXML dialect for them (*REF* is for “reference”):

����v�-��v��D�j�~�

Any objection to the approach? Will you use the same method if you will need such entities?

Notes.

1. I found a letter in archives:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7743681

It suggests trying a the existing SXML notation *ENTITY*. But, in my opinion, it’s just an ugly workaround, not a clean solution.

2. Please look at the sample XML above. One can’t convert it to SXML tree without losing information that the entity name was “figure1″ (but I don’t know if it is a problem or not).