Subject: Re: Special entity characters in Shift-JIS XSL. From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:11:22 GMT |
> But wouldn't it be nice to have something written into the spec which spec? there is nothing that could be put into the xsl spec, as what you are asking for is a change in XML 1.0, this is why your suggested markup of using &# syntax will always be fragile and flaky. As soon as your documents are touched by any xml parser the characters may (or may not) be written out as character data in the document encoding rather than as character references, since the xml spec makes it explicit that these are equivalent when used in element character data. SGML had sdata entities, but they were intentionally dropped from xml. If you want some information in the document to survive to the application use an element such as <foo/> or use characters but make your application treat Ӓ _identically_ to the character with unicode position 1234; > document, losing its status as an "entity" that would ultimately be needed > by the final HTML document. No. firstly the entities are not needed by HTML you can (or should) be able to use entities or the characters directly, but in any case the HTML output method for xslt will use entities however the character was entered. You can put   or that character directly in a stylesheet but it typically gets linearised as David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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