RE: •

Simple answer: you don't need to declare the entity at all.

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 From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Greg Martel
 Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 4:34 PM
 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: Re:  •

 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.

 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. Any guesses as to why I get the message telling me that
 this can be saved:

 <?xml version ="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
 <!ENTITY ntilde
 "<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&amp;ntilde;</xsl:text>">
 ]>
 <xsl:stylesheet . . .

and this:

 <?xml version ="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
 <!ENTITY #8226
 "<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&amp;8226;</xsl:text>">
 ]>
 <xsl:stylesheet . . .

cannot because it's not well-formed?

 >>  Why doesn't this XML content:      •
 >>  produce this output:               •
 >
 >Why do you think it should? The first is 6 characters in the stylesheet.
 >6 non white space characters in character data always just produce 6
 >characters in the output. Your required output is one character
 >reference. To get that character put • into the stylesheet.
 >
 >>  It's bloody nigh impossible to get my XML parser (Xalan-Java) NOT to
 >>  recognize entities except for this one case where recognizing it
 >
 >It does recognise it. & means an ampersand as character not as
 >markup, so that's what appears in the result tree. But that ampersamd
 >character in teh result tree has to be linearised as & otherwise
 >parsing teh result wouldn't reproduce that character.
 >
 >You haven't said why you think just putting • into the stylesheet
 >does not work.
 >
 >David
 >
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 Thanks,

gregm

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