[OAI-implementers] pointies in abstracts

[Hussein Suleman]

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hi

a few short comments on this entity question and schema validation ...

- internal named entities seem to work just fine

- one of the reasons we opted not to recommend named entities is because
of the fact that many XML parsers dont process external DTDs ... and
since this meant we couldnt use ISOlat1, etc. we went with Unicode
instead ...

- XSV currently supports external entity references as follows:
--- the external entity file must exist or the program crashes
unceremoniously
--- if the entity itself does not resolve its only a warning, not an
error

bottom line: unless all users of your OAI interface have the full
complement of popular entity files they may run into problems ...

suggestion: convert all named entities to unicode when generating OAI
responses (thats what i do)

ttfn
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