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From: Greg Martel <gregm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 09:33:59 -0500
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Thanks guys, this is helpful; but as for using
disable-output-escaping, I was not able to use it for this character
(yes, Wendell, I tried). When I tried to define either #8226 or 8226
as the entity reference in my stylesheet, I got a message that the
file was not well-formed. However, when I changed the entity
reference to anything that starts with a letter "<!ENTITY bull"
instead of "<!ENTITY #8226" or "<!ENTITY 8226" I was able to save the
file without incident. I use XML spy over Xalan-Java, or MSXML4 so
maybe what I am seeing is caused by XML SPY? Doesn't seem likely.
Anyway, when I was unable to save the file, I leaped to the (wrong)
conclusion that somehow defining an entity that doesn't start with a
letter of the alphabet is illegal in XML, at least in an XSL
stylesheet. Any guesses as to why I get the message telling me that
this can be saved:
<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
<!ENTITY ntilde
"<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&ntilde;</xsl:text>">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet . . .
and this:
<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
<!ENTITY #8226
"<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&8226;</xsl:text>">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet . . .
cannot because it's not well-formed?
Why doesn't this XML content: &#8226;
produce this output: •
Why do you think it should? The first is 6 characters in the stylesheet.
6 non white space characters in character data always just produce 6
characters in the output. Your required output is one character
reference. To get that character put • into the stylesheet.
It's bloody nigh impossible to get my XML parser (Xalan-Java) NOT to
recognize entities except for this one case where recognizing it
It does recognise it. & means an ampersand as character not as
markup, so that's what appears in the result tree. But that ampersamd
character in teh result tree has to be linearised as & otherwise
parsing teh result wouldn't reproduce that character.
You haven't said why you think just putting • into the stylesheet
does not work.
David
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gregm
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