Re: [xsl] Preseving character entities

[Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree, you do not need numeric character references as long as you stick to compliant XML parsers 
(as used by Cocoon). Though, they prevent mutation because of editing with text editors that can't 
handle encodings properly.

Moreover, the approach with character-maps to get named character references will result in the need 
for a DOCTYPE in your files. I would prefer UTF-8 or 'us-ascii' coded files. Doctype handling in 
Cocoon is a bit awkward..

:-P

Grtz,
Geert

> > and they
> > need to have the character references of the original document so that
> > they can continue to be parsed correctly by the stylesheets of the
> > Cocoon application.
>
>
> No. Any XML application can read the UTF* characters directly, (otherwise
> it is not an XML application) people and legacy text editors sometimes
> prefer to see the numeric character references, but no XML software will
> need that.
>
> David
>
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