Re: [xsl] generating numerical character entities in html output

[Rossella Rosin <tanataviele@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12.12 18/01/2005, you wrote:
> Note that numerical character references are not entity references (the
> archives will show a longish threaad on this subject within the last
> month or so)

duh. I didn't even think of searching for numerical character "references" 
sorry. Anything like &*; looks like an entity to me, so that's what I 
looked for. I will go and read the thread, promised.

> Normally when an ampersand is linearised on output it is written as
> & but d-o-e stops that and it will generate a & not & (which
> appears to be the opposite of what you said).

msxml does that, not my fault :-). I will try other processors.

> personally I wouldn't try to get character references in output, I doubt
> that any email scrapper that is capable of reading an html page at all
> will be able to read these so it isn't really hiding anything.

See my answer to Michael Kay for a reply to this.

> If you really want them, XSLT probably isn't your system of choice.

I'm starting to suspect so. I have other means to deal with that, so my 
interest for solving the problem in xslt is sort of speculative. Anyway 
whatever "@" is, an "entity" or a "reference" or anything else, it 
*should* be possible to generate it so the impossibility or difficulty in 
doing it should be considered something of a "bug" of xslt. I can live with 
that :-) but it's a pity anyway.

Rossella