Re: [xsl] special characters

Subject: Re: [xsl] special characters
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:28:01 +0100
Gary Cornelius wrote

  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&eacute;</xsl:text>


It's almost always a bad idea to suggest to someone that they use
disable-output-escaping.

There is no need here in the HTML output method, most processors will
output the character as an entity automatically without you needing to
do any entity definitions or d-o-e in the stylesheet.

  Then setup characters.ent...

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!-- latin capital letter E with grave, U+00C8 ISOlat1 &#201; -->
  <!ENTITY eacute "&eacute;">

That would be a very dangerous file. It could be considered a denial of
service attack: It will put any XML parser into an infinite loop if it
ever finds an instance of &eacute;.

David

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