Subject: RE: Understanding character handling From: "Markor, John (Non-HP)" <jmarkor@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:29:45 -0800 |
yes - but what a lot of people are forgetting is that EVENTUALLY! these documents will have to be produced by humans who have no idea what   is, and may only have a rudimentary knowledge that is a non-breaking space (or maybe even what a non-breaking space actually does). Its best to keep the "plain-language(?)" identifiers in there. -----Original Message----- From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 2:54 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Understanding character handling > The need for this is very real. If we can't write entity references in our > result document, we're reduced to using all manner of horrible kludges to make > our viewers see the right thing. Who wants to do... > ... contortions with nbsp deleted. Why is this a problem. is just the character  , so why do you need to write `nbsp'. No machine parsing the result will care which you use. It only `matters' if you plan on reading the result by eye. If you want to write ` ' in your stylesheet rather than remember the unicode number, you can do that now, with the current draft. Just declare the entity in your stylesheet. The only point at issue is that the entity will be expanded by the XML parser that reads the stylesheet and so the character (entity) will appear in the result rather than the named entity, but since these should have the same effect in the result document why does it matter. I seemed to have switched sides in this thread somewhere along the way:-) David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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