Re: (dsssl) character repertoire?

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx>]

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At 20:56 3/4/03, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Christopher R. Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The \ is an escape character, as in C++.  However, the escape
> > *sequences* vary; in C++, "\n" is the escape sequence for a newline;
> > that sequence, in DSSSL, is an 'n'.
>
>Well, no.  As I wrote, "\n" and "\
>" don't work.

Oh, yeah... sorry.  It's been a while.  "\n" means "the character called 
n", which I was thinking was "n", but as you point out it's not.

> > I routinely enclose my entire stylesheet bodies in CDATA marked
> > sections, unless for some reason I really *need* to use SGML general
> > entities inside them.
>
>Would you please show an example of the syntax?

<style-specification>
<![CDATA[
;; DSSSL stylesheet goes here
]]>
</style-specification>

That way, the only thing you can't have inside your stylesheet is the 
literal sequence ']]>'.

~Chris
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