[tei-council] entities delenda sunt?

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sat Oct 6 10:05:33 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:
> http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/TS.html#TSTPPR
>   
that's evil evil evil. how has it survived?
> Do we think this should be
> (a) removed -- user-defined entities are a bad habit to be discouraged
> (b) left well alone -- life's too hard
> (c) replaced by an example showing how to add user-defined elements
> (d) complemented by the same
>   
definitely not (b) or (d).  it simply won't work, because so much 
software will
simply expand the entities and lose the carefully-added info.  how,
these days, would you trap those entities?

they could use gaiji stuff, of course. or are these milestones? or even
processing-instructions.

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