RE: RE: [xsl] special characters

Subject: RE: RE: [xsl] special characters
From: Gary Cornelius <gary.cornelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:44:39 +0100
Oooops!.. Thanks for advise.

Cheers

Gary

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David
> Carlisle
> Sent: 23 May 2003 11:28
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] special characters
> 
> 
> 
> Gary Cornelius wrote
> 
>   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&eacute;</xsl:text>
> 
> 
> It's almost always a bad idea to suggest to someone that they use
> disable-output-escaping.
> 
> There is no need here in the HTML output method, most processors will
> output the character as an entity automatically without you needing to
> do any entity definitions or d-o-e in the stylesheet.
> 
>   Then setup characters.ent...
> 
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>   <!-- latin capital letter E with grave, U+00C8 ISOlat1 &#201; -->
>   <!ENTITY eacute "&eacute;">
> 
> That would be a very dangerous file. It could be considered a denial of
> service attack: It will put any XML parser into an infinite loop if it
> ever finds an instance of &eacute;.
> 
> David
> 
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