Article:		Named Character Elements for XML
Subject:		Character entities are not needed
Date:		2003-01-08 04:45:45
From:		Lars Marius Garshol
What is really needed is better editors. That's all. If editors make it easy to enter and identify obscure characters the whole issue just goes away. And, frankly, I wish it would. Character entities are a pain, and I'm not at all convinced character elements are any nicer.

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• Character entities are not needed
  2003-01-08 07:07:15 Anthony Coates [Reply]
  
  I don't disagree with you, but we wanted to deliver a here-and-now solution. A lot of XML is still produced with vi and Notepad, and there is still a need to produce XML on systems that do not support Unicode. Cheers, Tony.