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RE: suppression of the transformation of character entities in

• To: "'Sascha Pogacar \(XPECT MEDIA\)'" <sascha.pogacar@x...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: suppression of the transformation of character entities in XSLT?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:03:20 +0100
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• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> ’ decimal supposes to be the right single quotation 
> mark, which comes up nicely, when you put it directly into an 
> html <div>.

As I think Rick Jelliffe has explained, it might work in HTML, but in
XML, &#148; does not represent a right single quotation mark, in fact it
does not represent a displayable character at all. In XML, numeric
character references must be Unicode code points.

Michael Kay

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