Subject: RE: [xsl] recognize character entities From: "Waters, Michael, Springer US" <Mike.Waters@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:38:53 -0400 |
>> Is it in the spirit of XML to let the parser expand the entity >> references back to themselves? For example, in the above >situation, is >> this a reasonable thing to do: > > <!ENTITY euro "&euro;"> > >It might be (but probably isn't:-) But that isn't making teh entity >reference convert back to itself, it's making it expand to the 6 >characters €, not to an entity reference. > >the real question is why are you looking for the entity refs. >The whole point of entities are supposed to be as an author convenience >so if the _author_ doesn't have a euro key on his or her keyboard and >finds it convenient to instead type € that they may do so safe in >the knowledge that alllater applications will treat € the same as >if the character had been entered directly. > >So if you make € be something else then the "spirit" has >been broken >in that now the character and the entity ref will do different things. > >Do you really need to look for entity refererences or do you need to >look for characters that are normally entered via entity references? > >If you do end up redefining teh entities, it's easier to test for ><entity name="euro"/> in xslt1 than it is for a string containing >&euro; and much easier to use xslt to convert it back to a single >character. > >But the question is really _why_ do you want to treat >€ differently from € ? Sorry, I apologize. I interjected the question above on entity handling, but failed to note that I wasn't the original poster for this thread. I was curious about the poster's situation because I came across something similar some time ago. Unfortunately, I can't detail the exact circumstances of why I needed to do such a thing. Vaguely, it had something to do with creating a mapping table of some sort. Anyway, the bottom line is that, obviously, I don't know the reasoning WHY behind the original poster's query. Sorry I misspoke. Didn't mean to sidetrack the discussion. Mike Waters
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