Re: SDATA entity mapping in Jade

[Daniel Speck <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Clark wrote:
> 
> At 09:26 14/04/97 -0400, Daniel Speck wrote:
> >
> >So, until Jade supports SDATA entity mapping, how would one go about
> >faking it?
> 
> What exactly do you want to do with SDATA entities?  Jade supports about 900
> of the ISO standard SDATA entity names (including all the WGL4 characters).
> For RTF at least there's not much point in supporting more than this until
> the RTF backend allows configurable mapping from glyph ids to font/character
> codes.
> 
> James

Well, for one, I'd like to write a style specification to go from
Docbook 3.0 to
HTML 3.2 (as a learning exercise for me). Perhaps this isn't a good
application of the DSSSL style transformation. I need a way to say what
should become of, e.g., ™, “, ”, —, &ndash, etc.

Also, if I have my own DTD with its own SDATA entities (which are not a
subset of the standard ISO SDATA entities) I need a way of mapping them
to something reasonable in the output. One of my SDATA entities might
become several output characters.

- -dan

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