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Ben Ryan wrote: > > Hi, > This may be dumb question, but when you use an entity such as ⫧ it > is declared to have the literal entity value of "" what is the > actual replacement text generated by the parser? > > I assume that it would depend on what encoding the xml that you are > parsing has. Not really. For XML, whatever encoding you use, "A character is an atomic unit of text as specified by ISO/IEC 10646" [1]. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#charsets This has been the starting point of many discussions, but XML tools are supposed to work on Unicode whatever encoding is being used and the encoding is just a transformation applied to serialize and deserialize an XML document. What may depend on the encoding is what will get generated if you write this document back to a file. Hope this helps. Eric > Thanks, > Ben > -- > *************************** > Dr Benjamin Ryan > Senior Technical Consultant > C-Elect > Tel: +(44) 1484 517077 > Fax: +(44) 1484 517068 > *************************** > -- See you at XTech in San Diego. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/view/e_spkr/790 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com http://xsltunit.org http://4xt.org http://examplotron.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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