Michael Beddow writes:
 > 3) character entities. A radical and heretical tip. Get yourself a
 > proper Unicode-aware OS and editor (XMLSpy on NT or W2K, but NOT on
 > Win9x/ME, or various solutions for Linux, though you may need some help
 > to get them all together: emacs do fine, but you will have to seek
 > advice about terminals to get the display right) Then fearlessly use the
 > default utf-8 encoding for XML and forget about entities for
 > representing characters altogether

hurrah! well said! ban those pesky character entities!

 > dimensions. Or better still, perhaps some rich institution could fund a
 > throrough XML-sation of the content of at least the lite docs, if not
 > yet the whole whammy?

The whole whammy is on the way, now, courtesy of a rich institution
(the NEH).

My view is that the Lite intro is in fact XML?SGML neutral - can you
show otherwise?

Sebastian