Re: [OT] entity defintions

  I'm having a bit of trouble with a pound sign in a SOAP message. The
  parser seems to choke on pound signs, even when they are encoded as
  £. The document is encoded as UTF-8. Can anyone confirm that these
  numerical entities are the most fundamental type and are automatically
  defined in all XML grammars?


And your xslt question is?

£ isn't an entity reference but a character reference, and as such
is never defined in a dtd, it is just part of the syntax of xml and must
be supprted by any xml parser, just as < is supported to start an element
tag. If your document is utf8 encoded of course you don't need to use a
character reference you could enter the character directly (it will be
two bytes).


David


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