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XML online and Entities

• From: David Schach <davidsch@m...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:27:10 -0700

I noticed that XMLToc contains unescaped &'s inside of PCData.  This is
legal SGML but prohibited in XML per section 2.4.  I think this example
shows the need to revisit the entity expansion rules in XML.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jon.Bosak@E... [SMTP:Jon.Bosak@E...]
> Sent:	Monday, June 16, 1997 11:18 PM
> To:	xml-dev@i...
> Subject:	Reminder: XML online
> 
> I announced this about three months ago and am just repeating it for
> the benefit of anyone who recently subscribed to the list.
> 
> If you are looking for generated XML to test your XML application, you
> can find it at our Sun documentation server, docs.sun.com.  This site
> (not yet widely publicized) exists primarily to serve out HTML
> generated on the fly from our SolBook (DocBook) database of Solaris
> manuals.  To see it operating in normal mode, just point your Web
> browser at http://docs.sun.com.
> 
> In addition to its normal HTML output, our AnswerBook2 team has rigged
> docs.sun.com to generate an unsophisticated but copious alternative
> XML data stream if you know how to ask for it.
> 
> HOW TO GET XML
> 
> The AnswerBook2 (ab2) manuals on docs.sun.com are organized into
> several large categories (alluser, sysadmin, etc.) with a number of
> books in each catagory.  Thus, the Solaris Advanced User's Guide is
> referred to in URLs as /ab2/alluser/ADVOSUG.  Two forms of XML access
> are currently supported: TOCs and document chunks.  TOCs are accessed
> via the @xmlToc template, and chunks are accessed via the @xmlChunk
> template.  The @xmlToc template always shows a table of contents down
> to the chapter level, no matter what level it is invoked at.
> 
> Some examples:
> 
> 1. To get a chapter-level TOC of the entire contents of the server:
> 
>    http://docs.sun.com/ab2/@xmlToc
> 
> 2. To get a chapter-level TOC of the manuals in the alluser category:
> 
>    http://docs.sun.com/ab2/alluser/@xmlToc
> 
> 3. To get a chapter-level TOC of the Solaris Advanced User's Guide:
> 
>    http://docs.sun.com/ab2/alluser/ADVOSUG/@xmlToc
> 
> 4. To get a particular chapter from the manual (as listed in the TOC):
> 
>    http://docs.sun.com/ab2/alluser/ADVOSUG/@xmlChunk/1120
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
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