Subject: Re: [xsl] • From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:27:47 -0400 |
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>&ntilde;</xsl:text>"> ]> <xsl:stylesheet . . .
and this:
<?xml version ="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE stylesheet [ <!ENTITY #8226 "<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&8226;</xsl:text>"> ]> <xsl:stylesheet . . .
<?xml version ="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE stylesheet [ <!ENTITY ntilde "<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&8226;</xsl:text>"> ]> <xsl:stylesheet . . .
Cheers, Wendell
cannot because it's not well-formed?
Why doesn't this XML content: &#8226; produce this output: •
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 • 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. & 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 & otherwise parsing teh result wouldn't reproduce that character.
You haven't said why you think just putting • into the stylesheet does not work.
David
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-- Thanks,
gregm
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