Subject: Re: SDATA entity mapping in Jade From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:50:16 +0700 |
At 09:16 15/04/97 -0400, Daniel Speck wrote: >James Clark wrote: >> >> At 09:26 14/04/97 -0400, Daniel Speck wrote: >> > >> >So, until Jade supports SDATA entity mapping, how would one go about >> >faking it? >> >> What exactly do you want to do with SDATA entities? Jade supports about 900 >> of the ISO standard SDATA entity names (including all the WGL4 characters). >> For RTF at least there's not much point in supporting more than this until >> the RTF backend allows configurable mapping from glyph ids to font/character >> codes. >> >> James > >Well, for one, I'd like to write a style specification to go from >Docbook 3.0 to >HTML 3.2 (as a learning exercise for me). Perhaps this isn't a good >application of the DSSSL style transformation. I need a way to say what >should become of, e.g., ™, “, ”, —, &ndash, etc. Are you using -t sgml? If so, I think what's needed is for the SGML transformation backend to be able to translate characters to entity references on output (probably under the control of a characteristic). James
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