Percent HTML Entity

Post by **leematthew** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:09 am

Hi,

I have an XML file that contains > and < HTML entities (for ">" and "<" respectively).

This document is validated by Oxygen.

However, when I attempt to add &percnt; (for "%"), oxygen will not validate my file.

Given that > and < validate, I'm assuming I don't have to by referencing some external schema (otherwise it would also contain &percnt;).

The only other alternative (that I can think of) is that support for > and < is built into oxygen. But that implies that &percnt; is not supported by oxygen.

Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Matt

Post by **george** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 9:51 am

Hi Matt,

The < , >, &, &quote; and ' entities are defined by the XML specification [1].

In order to use some other entities they have to be defined. For instance you can use the "New from templates" action [2] and create a new XHTML document like the one below:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>        

        <title></title>

    </head>

    <body>

    </body>

</html>

If you will enable the "Show all entities option" [3] you should be able to see in the content completion popup after you press "&" all the defined entities.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040 ... efined-ent
[2] http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... -templates
[3] http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... etion.html

Best Regards,
George