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Re: Re: ProgramListingCO bugs on "linespecific image"text files ?
- From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx dot net>
- To: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>,Docbook Apps list <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:58:56 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: ProgramListingCO bugs on "linespecific image"text files ?
Bob Stayton writes:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:44:08PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > However, that is not a generic solution. It expands (or attempts to
> > expand) anything that looks an entity reference.
> I just want to make it clear to XML users that that the scope
> of this solution is SGML only, as XML does not support
> RCDATA. XML only does PCDATA, where entities are not
> expanded.
I think the best truly generic solution given the current tools is to have
a little filter program that converts your text to something SGML-safe by
converting the funny characters to entities. Everything else just seems
to fall down somewhere.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net