Re: [dssslist] Character entities in DSSSL stylesheet

[daniel lance herrick <dan.herrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks to me like your two tests confirm my first
assertion.

Somewhere in *all* the doctype declaration you are
invoking there is a definition of the entity nbsp
and the value of that entity expands to the empty
string.

You may need to do it functionally, "emit"ing the
literal text you want in your output. (I don't
have my DSSSL standard here and it's been over a
year....)

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, N. Raghavendra wrote:

> At 2004-06-30T07:57:25-04:00, daniel lance herrick wrote:
>
> > Looks like   is an entity whose value is the
> > empty string.
> >
> > Defining it to be an entity whose value is
> > " " would be one approach.
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for your interest.
>
> If I put
>
>   <!ENTITY nbsp "&nbsp;">
>   <!ENTITY author "Fname&nbsp;Surname">
>
> in the doctype of the stylesheet, I get the error message
>
>   openjade:bar.dsl:18:41:E: entity "nbsp" is already open
>
> when I do
>
>   openjade -t bar.dsl bar.sgml
>
> > Invoking another entity, as
> >
> >    <!ENTITY author "Fname&amp;nbsp;Surname">
> >
> > (which would require that &amp; be defined
> > somewhere in the doctype) is another approach.
>
> Following this suggestion, in the doctype of the DSSSL stylesheet, I
> put
>
>   <!ENTITY amp "&">
>   <!ENTITY author "Fname&amp;nbsp;Surname">
>
> and got the output "Fname&#38;nbsp;Surname".  What I am expecting is
> "Fname&nbsp;Surname".
>
> Cheers,
> Raghavendra.
>
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