From: Clifford Heath <cjh-nospam@...>
Date: 2004-01-08T13:21:38+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml and external entities

"Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@AGEDWARDS.com> wrote in
news:89539780CB9BD51182270002A5897DF605ECFF74@hqempn04.agedwards.com: 
> It's too bad those two things ... entity expansion and validation ...
> got tied together since they are really separate things.  Entity
> expansion gets used as an include mechanism.  It's easy to see how one
> might want to use that, but not care about validation.

Exactly my need. Sean, if I locate the external file, do I need to
do anything special to load it? Because then I could add any entities
defined in it to the loaded rexml tree and they should get expanded as
if they were internal entities. Can you give an example or some hints
on how to do this?  I'm kinda stuck with external entities, as we're
using the one XML file for generating code (ruby program) and now our
documentation team want to include entities which expand differently
for this purpose (different include file) than for code-generation.