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Subject: [docbook] Proposal: stop shipping entity sets with DocBook V4.4
I punt my vote to Adam Di Carlo (Hi Adam:) on this one, since he packages
DocBook and some entities for Debian, and has a much better sense of the
packaging issues.
Cheers,
Mark
> I think it's time to stop shipping our own hacked sets with DocBook.
>
> Pro: - one less set of entities in the world
> - makes the distribution smaller
> - fixes a recently reported bug that the mapping for hyphen
> is incorrect in the current sets
> - relies on an external standard for XML entities just like for SGML
> entities
> - means that a single set can be shared across all of a users documents
>
> Con: - one more thing for the end user to install
> - I don't know if they're packaged yet
> - the system identifier will hit the net if you aren't using a catalog
> of some sort
>
>
> On balance, I think the pros outweigh the cons, but I doubt that'll
> get unanimous agreement.
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