Re: [cxml-devel] Ho do I write the following on a sink?

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:22:15PM +0200, David Lichteblau wrote:

So is there a reason for the lack of entity reference writing support? Mainly just that I've never needed it myself. Usually I would just write the actual character. Λ means the same thing as the character with the code 923 on any Lisp with Unicode support, and every XML parser can Unicode characters.

The entity 'λ' could mean _anything_ depending on context:

<?xml version='1.0' />

<!doctype marketing-blah [ <!ENTITY lambda "Lambda Inc. - World leader in artificial inteligence"> ]>

<marketing-bal> <title>Wlecome to the world of &lambda;</title>

....

Bundle this with xinclude and you get a lot of reasons to support entity reference writing.

Cheers, Ralf Mattes