RE: [xsl] “ Entity reference problem

Subject: RE: [xsl] “ Entity reference problem
From: Abhijit Junnare <mavlaabhi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks a lot! This will definitely be of help.
Abhi
--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Abhi,
> 
> A couple of refinements to Andreas' advice (which is
> correct, in the main)
> 
> At 12:22 PM 10/17/2003, he wrote:
> >Two possible solutions:
> >
> >- use the corresponding Unicode codepoint value (
> e.g. " ) everywhere
> >instead of &ldquo;
> 
> The correct character reference is to ? for
> the left double quote 
> mark (assuming you want the ISO-standard ldquo
> character).
> 
> >- define an entity &ldquo; in an external DTD that
> maps to this value
> 
> To be explicit, the declaration will look like
> 
> <!ENTITY ldquo  "?" ><!--=double quotation
> mark, left-->
> 
> and I bet if you have ldquo you'll also need
> 
> <!ENTITY rdquo  "?" ><!--=double quotation
> mark, right-->
> 
> and maybe some others.
> 
> These declarations can be in either an internal or
> an external DTD subset 
> of your document. Probably what's happening in your
> case is that the 
> reference to an external DTD has been removed, or
> the parser is not parsing it.
> 
> This is not an XSL question: you'll find more
> guidance in a reference on 
> XML syntax.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> 
>
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