How do I define entities for the author mode ?

[amix]

I want to represent German umlauts as in HTML (ie: Ä ü etc.). How can I do this ?
When I add the <!ENTITY> element to an XML document after the XML prolog, it gets marked as error. I also do not understand, how exactly I should do this entity declaration, ie, how it looks like. Thanks.

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

Just declare them as character entities:

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

<!DOCTYPE root [

  <!ENTITY Auml '&#196;'>

  <!ENTITY uuml '&#252;'>

]>

<root>

    The &Auml; and &uuml; characters.

</root>

You can also use the character codes directly:

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

<root>

    The &#196; and &#252; characters.

</root>

Regards,
Sorin

[amix]

Thanks Sorin. This explains my mistake. I put a & and quotes around the first argument to the entitiy declaration and left out the <!DOCTYPE> element.