Hi Hussein,
I know this has already been discussed on this list, but I would like to
ask for the status of this (this is for docbook editing but I think most
of it applies to general xml editing as well):
Currently, XXE does expand all entities it finds and forgets about them.
This makes is impossible to edit "master" documents which include for
example chapters into a book because all you get is one big book. The
suggested workaround is to edit the master file with a regular text editor.
As you mention on the features-page, you plan to add "Easy to use
support of multi-file documents based on standard external entities." Do
you have any estimate on when this can be expected in XXE?
You also said many times that it is not very likely that Entities are
fully supported in XXE in the future. This is also a problem for
entities which are used as "macros" which are bound to be changed some
time in the future. Wouldn't it be possible to have a mode in which
expansion of entities is completely disabled? I think that you will need
something like this for the multi-file documents implementation as well,
so it would be great if this could be disabled for all entities (or will
this work only for external entities?) It wouldn't be a problem if the
entities could not be declared in XXE itself (this could be done with
another editor) but it would be great if they were not expanded.
Thank you for your help
Bernd
