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Greg,
At 10:33 AM 6/8/2002, you wrote: Thanks guys, this is helpful; but as for using disable-output-escaping, I was not able to use it for this character (yes, Wendell, I tried). When I tried to define either #8226 or 8226 as the entity reference in my stylesheet, I got a message that the file was not well-formed. However, when I changed the entity reference to anything that starts with a letter "<!ENTITY bull" instead of "<!ENTITY #8226" or "<!ENTITY 8226" I was able to save the file without incident. I use XML spy over Xalan-Java, or MSXML4 so maybe what I am seeing is caused by XML SPY? Doesn't seem likely. Oh, it wasn't clear this was what you were trying to do. You can't have an entity named '#8226' or '8226' since those are not legal names in XML. The parser recognizes • as a character not because there is somewhere an entity named '#8826' declared, but because entities of this form are hard-wired to be character entities. Anyway, when I was unable to save the file, I leaped to the (wrong) conclusion that somehow defining an entity that doesn't start with a letter of the alphabet is illegal in XML, at least in an XSL stylesheet. No, it's correct, anywhere in XML including an XSL stylesheet. Any guesses as to why I get the message telling me that this can be saved: It's well-formed, and allowed. and this: It's not, since the name isn't legal. Basically you're trying to trick the parser into serializing your character as a string of characters that will look like an entity when the file is parsed again. You could also do this: <?xml version ="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE stylesheet [ <!ENTITY ntilde "<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&8226;</xsl:text>"> ]> <xsl:stylesheet . . . Then any ñ entities in your stylesheet would refer to the string '•'. But what use is that? Such an entity in your stylesheet means only that you can write out the characters '•' when you want. Why is this so important, instead of just using the character itself? Declaring such entities in your stylesheet is quite a different thing from handling them in your input -- the classic version of the problem being jiggering your input so that entities come out, not characters. But you're jiggering your stylesheet, not your input document. Cheers, Wendell cannot because it's not well-formed? ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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