Re: Can I suppress entity substitution in XSLT?

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Subject: Re: Can I suppress entity substitution in XSLT?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:50:43 -0400

Taro,

At 10:21 AM 7/28/2003, you wrote:

Is the situation any different for 'internal or external general
entities',
or is it the same as for character entities?

Strictly speaking, formally there's no such thing as a "character entity". There are "character references" which are numeric, take the form &#_160; (remove underscore), and then there are "entity references", which use the name of an entity, which must be declared, such as &_nbsp;. Whether that entity is expanded to one character or many makes no difference to the XML processor, for these purposes.

So the short answer is yes, it's the same; what you're calling a "character entity" *is* a general entity (that happens to resolve to a single character).

Cheers,
Wendell


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Re: Can I suppress entity substitution in XSLT?, (continued)
- G. Ken Holman - Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:41:33 -0400 (EDT)
  - Wendell Piez - Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:16:08 -0400 (EDT)
    - Chris Loschen - Mon, 28 Jul 2003 07:34:04 -0400 (EDT)
    - Taro Ikai - Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:21:11 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:54:46 -0400 (EDT) <=
    - J.Pietschmann - Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:11:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Andrew Welch - Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:36:02 -0400 (EDT)
  - Wendell Piez - Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:57:18 -0400 (EDT)

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