Re: processing character entities

[MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark)]

Boris Goldowsky <boris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> asked:
>> What are the various solutions people on this list use for processing
>> character entities in SGML->SGML or SGML->HTML conversions? In my work

>>>>> Matthias Clasen answered:
MC> I don't know if this really helps here, but OpenJade implements the
MC> map-sdata-entity declaration, so you can control the 
MC> sdata entity --> character map from within your stylesheet now.
 
and Boris asked for clarification:
B>Can someone give me an example of how to use this?  The spec suggests
B>   <map-sdata-entity name="Alpha" text="[Alpha]">greekA</map-sdata-entity>
B>but then what?  How do I get from there to
B>   <IMG src="/images/alpha.gif">?


I can't give any clarification, but I'll second his question; I primarily
output in RTF and HTML, but the documents can contain just about any
character defined in the various ISO entity sets.  So dealing with the
limitations of the various backends is in my future :-)


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