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Re: Fw: Bug in SAXON (entity/character set ) ??
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- Subject: Re: Fw: Bug in SAXON (entity/character set ) ??
- From: "Melvyn Rosengarden" <melrose at rochester dot rr dot com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:44:16 -0500
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I wasn't SURE about the entity declaration. In Kay Michaels book I saw
examples of both. Soooo in my test bed I used both ways
<entity_test e_test1="•" e_test2="•" />
Neither one was rendered correctly in SAXON, both rendered aas bullets using
MSXML.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Brown" <mike@skew.org>
To: <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Bug in SAXON (entity/character set ) ??
> David Carlisle wrote:
> > > <!ENTITY bullet "&#8226;">
> > why the double escaping here?
> > It cold more easily have been written
> > <!ENTITY bullet "•">
>
> It looks like he's trying to see if it's possible to force a character
> reference into the output by putting the 7 characters & # 8 2 2 6 ; into
> the stylesheet. Of course, the &, as character data, will always be
> serialized as & or &, so it's not going to work. :) He should just
> put the 1 bullet character into the stylesheet by specifying it as
> • and not worry about how it gets serialized.
>
> - Mike
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