oh. err... Do you consider the ${var}, the &entity; or both to be
nonstandard and are looking to replace text-replacement with something else?
alan
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> Alan Santos wrote:
> >Why not just use entity references? XML (and a parser) provide the
> required
> >functionality and there would have been less code to maintain. (i.e. the
> >code to do ${} replacement).
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> It is increasingly becoming my opinion that we should move away from a
> non-standard string substitution mechanism, and find reasonable
> alternatives for any missing functionallity that is required.
>
> - Sam Ruby
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