Subject: Re: [xsl] ENTITY declaration From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:32:45 +0000 |
George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> so I must be doing something horribly wrong >> >> No, I think it's just that nxml mode doesn't read DTD syntax so >> doesn't see your entity definition. > > nxml should work with an entity declaration without problems, the > problem is that the entity declaration is wrong, as I said in my > previous reply there is an equal instead of space in the entity > declaration. thanks all. it appears i'm not the only one that missed the equals sign ;-) and nxml-mode is right once again! i've used various emacs programming modes for quite some time now and i have to say nxml-mode is up there with the best of them. someone wondered why i want to use '&content;' in place of <xsl:value-of select='.' />, especially given that i have nxml-mode's autocompletion features to hand. well, the main reason is that visually it's a hundred times easier to spot. you can tell at a glance where the element content is being included, and secondly, it's a less error prone sequence of letters to type. even with nxml-mode checking for validity as you type, and making use of it's autocompletion features where possible, errors still creep in and are hard to spot. the one thing nxml-mode doesn't do is tell you exactly where your document becomes invalid. the main reason though is the visual one. sdt
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