RE: [xsl] •

["Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>]

Simple answer: you don't need to declare the entity at all.

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Greg Martel
> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 4:34 PM
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> 
> 
> Thanks guys, this is helpful; but as for using 
> disable-output-escaping, I was not able to use it for this character 
> (yes, Wendell, I tried). When I tried to define either #8226 or 8226 
> as the entity reference in my stylesheet, I got a message that the 
> file was not well-formed. However, when I changed the entity 
> reference to anything that starts with a letter "<!ENTITY bull" 
> instead of "<!ENTITY #8226" or "<!ENTITY 8226" I was able to save the 
> file without incident. I use XML spy over Xalan-Java, or MSXML4 so 
> maybe what I am seeing is caused by XML SPY? Doesn't seem likely.
> 
> Anyway, when I was unable to save the file, I leaped to the (wrong) 
> conclusion that somehow defining an entity that doesn't start with a 
> letter of the alphabet is illegal in XML, at least in an XSL 
> stylesheet. Any guesses as to why I get the message telling me that 
> this can be saved:
> 
> <?xml version ="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY ntilde
> "<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&amp;ntilde;</xsl:text>">
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet . . .
> 
> 
> and this:
> 
> <?xml version ="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY #8226
> "<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&amp;8226;</xsl:text>">
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet . . .
> 
> 
> cannot because it's not well-formed?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >>  Why doesn't this XML content:      &amp;#8226;
> >>  produce this output:               &#8226;
> >
> >Why do you think it should? The first is 6 characters in the stylesheet.
> >6 non white space characters in character data always just produce 6
> >characters in the output. Your required output is one character
> >reference. To get that character put &#8226; into the stylesheet.
> >
> >>  It's bloody nigh impossible to get my XML parser (Xalan-Java) NOT to
> >>  recognize entities except for this one case where recognizing it
> >
> >It does recognise it. &amp; means an ampersand as character not as
> >markup, so that's what appears in the result tree. But that ampersamd
> >character in teh result tree has to be linearised as &amp; otherwise
> >parsing teh result wouldn't reproduce that character.
> >
> >You haven't said why you think just putting &#8226; into the stylesheet
> >does not work.
> >
> >David
> >
> >
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> Thanks,
> 
> gregm
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