Re: More entity confusion and my opinion on the right way

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Bunner wrote:
> 
>   Here's what I don't understand about the entity-writing problem...
> 
>   If I include & in my source document or stylesheet, I get & in my
> result document (this is good since my result document is HMTL).
> 
>   If I include " in my source document or stylesheet, I get " in the
> result document. Hmm. OK.

" and " are equivalent.  I made XT use " in content; I could as
easily make it use ".  Does anybody care one way or the other?

>   Of even greater confusion to me is if I include © in my source document.
> In this case, I get an error... © references an undefined entity. BUT, if
> I include © in my source document, I get © in the result document.
> 'Hooray!' I think to myself, this must mean that if I include an entity
> reference to an ascii code, it will get translated to the right HTML entity.

Right.  That's what XT does when you use the HTML namespace as the
result.
 
>   Wrong.
> 
>     (space) gets translated to the space character, not to  

  corresponds to   not  .

James



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