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Subject: RE: [xsl] Writing an Entity Reference
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:57:26 +0100
> ...however I would argue why bother?  Unless you plan on 
> hand-editing the file later on, why  the need for entities?

Well, there are other uses, for example the document referred to be the
entity reference can change independently of the referencing document. But
because entity references are not well supported by XML processing tools, my
advice would be to use XInclude for such purposes.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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