Re: [dssslist] Character entities in DSSSL stylesheet

Subject: Re: [dssslist] Character entities in DSSSL stylesheet
From: daniel lance herrick <dan.herrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:57:25 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, N. Raghavendra wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to use an entity reference like this in a DSSSL stylesheet:
>
>   (define *author-name* "&author;")
>
> `author' has been previously declared as
>
>   <!ENTITY author "Fname&nbsp;Surname">
>
> When I process a DocBook document with OpenJade to output HTML, it
> ignores `&nbsp;' and just gives "FnameSurname" (no space).

Looks like &nbsp; is an entity whose value is the
empty string.

Defining it to be an entity whose value is
"&nbsp;" would be one approach.

Invoking another entity, as

   <!ENTITY author "Fname&amp;nbsp;Surname">

(which would require that &amp; be defined
somewhere in the doctype) is another approach.

dan


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