Re: Question about entities in Mallard

[Milo Casagrande <milo casagrande name>]

Hi all,

2009/11/24 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
>
> The trickier question is how to include the standard character
> entities.  There are similar DOCTYPE tricks, but you'll need
> to have them installed on your system.  It turns out that you
> do have them installed as part of the DocBook package, but do
> we want to rely on that?  Should we encourage people to use
> DocBook's character entity definitions?  Should we ship our
> own character entity definitions?

I'm all in favor for shipping a gnome-doc characters entity definition.
Would it be a good idea to set as a goal for 3.0?

> /me thinks the standard character entities should have just
> been part of the XML standard.

Agree.

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Milo Casagrande <milo casagrande name>