RE: [dita] NBSP entity in topic.mod DTD file

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 2008 February 01 16:14
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [dita] NBSP entity in topic.mod DTD file
> 
> 
> In updating the DTDs for 1.2, I've been reminded again of 
> these 3 peculiar
> lines in topic.mod:
> <!-- for use within the DTD and supported topics; these will NOT work
>      outside of this DTD or dtds that specialize from it!          -->
> <!ENTITY nbsp                   "&#xA0;"                             >
> 
> I know Yas Etessam questioned this back in October without an answer:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200710/msg00019.html
> 
> I do not know why this is present. I think it was a mistake - 

The comment makes no sense to me, and I can think of
no reason why there should be a special case for the
nbsp entity.

I'd delete those three lines unless someone can give
a good user case for why this is necessary.

paul