[jdom-interest] EntityRef questions

[Jason Hunter]

> I don't think about modifying external entities. Let's say no methods for
> modifying external entities, but from the memory consumption point of view
> it would be swell if an external parsed entity is stored expanded into
> memory only once. I give you the example with 1 million references to an
> external parsed entity again.

That gets difficult when someone wants to modify the content (because
modification in one place would inadvertantly cause modification in a
million).

-jh-