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I never understood why internal or external entities were included in XML. Can anyone explain what useful purpose they serve?
by peterkelly 13y ago
I never understood why internal or external entities were included in XML. Can anyone explain what useful purpose they serve?
- bazzargh 13y agoExactly the same as #includes and #defines in C - they let you organize your code in multiple files, be more concise, and shoot yourself in the foot, repeatedly. They were useful for document editing use cases - remember this was before SOAP and xml serialization, and sgml tooling that already supported this stuff existed. You can see the record of the decision here: http://www.w3.org/XML/9712-reports.html#ID5 http://www.w3.org/XML/9712-reports.html#ID5