Subject: Re: [xsl] Preseving character entities From: Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:19 +0100 |
You will have to elaborate. I don't see why named entity references 'have' to be of SDATA type..
That isn't what I said. Clearly entity references don't have to be SDATA.
entities are always named, so "named entity references" are the same as "entity references" and can be of any type allowed in the language under consideration (XML or SGML).
SGML, but not XML, had a specific SDATA entity type that was used for
producing something that was essentially a named character, α in HTML doesn't really expand to anything: it's just reported by the parser
as a named reference to a system specific character called alpha.
In XHTML it's completely different: &alpha expands to the unicode character 945 and will just be reported as that by the XML parser with the fact that there was an entity reference perhaps not being reported at all (and being ignored even if reported when building an Xpath data model).
While it's not uncommon for people to use the terminology appropriate to HTML SDATA references when talking about XML entity references, it's a practice best avoided. α and α are different beasts and expanded at different times by an XML parser. The XML spec calls the first an entity reference and the second a character reference one may argue whether another terminology would have been clearer, but what's done is done and so using "character reference" even prefixed with "named" to refer to something that by definition is not a character reference just helps deepen confusion not lessen it.
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