[Petal] Basic Question on Entity Encoding

[Joachim Zobel]

Hi.

I think I missed something basic, but I do not understand why Petal does
entity encoding at all. It would be much easier if it did not touch any
text and just cared about the tags.

Thanks,
Joachim

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