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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: "Anthony B. Coates" <abcoates@T...>,xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 09:51:29 -0500
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At 2:48 PM +0000 11/2/02, Anthony B. Coates wrote:


>If this seems pedantic, let me give a concrete example.  XSLT engines do not
>require XSLT scripts to be valid with respect to a DTD.  However, character
>entities are convenient to use in XSLT scripts, particularly when generating
>HTML.  If I stick a DOCTYPE like the above in my XSLT script, the standard
>command-line settings will mean that validation fails, and the transformation
>won't happen.  Now, the erudite readers of "xml-dev" know how to work around
>this, but the other 99% of the world doesn't know, and doesn't want to have to
>spend the time learning how.  I can't really go for solutions based on a
>slash-and-burn approach towards part-time XML/XSLT users.

Can you be more concrete? Which XSLT engines have this problem?
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