Entity references to guard against typos [was Re: [xsl] variable definition reuse]

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Jeni,

Bizarre!

I guess it might make sense, for development, *if* the tag set were large 
and nasty enough to make it worth the overhead. But it seems like alot to 
do to protect against a problem (typos) that really isn't so bad if you 
build your stylesheet in little steps and test it as you go (as I hope 
everyone does). (A good development environment should be able to check for 
you too. Typos should really not be a problem.)

For production, no way ... normalize it first. It would just be another 
thing to break.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 09:15 AM 3/22/2002, you wrote:
>I've been in discussion recently with someone who wanted to go as far
>as declaring all the names of elements and attributes in the source
>XML document as entities so that there was an error if he made a typo.
>I'd welcome other people's thoughts as to whether that's a good idea
>or not...


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