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- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
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- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 12:29:03 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Re: [xsl] •
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Greg Martel wrote:
> Anybody have helpful advice on why XML-Spy/xalan won't let me
> redefine a numeric entity in a stylesheet but will let me redefine
> other entities.
It won't let you do it because in XML there is no such thing as a "numeric
entity". "&" signals the beginning of markup for either an entity reference or
a character reference. You've been talking about character references, not
entities.
Entity reference: &foo; where foo starts with a name char (letter)
Character reference: &#foo; where foo is 1 or more digits (decimal or
hex), preceded by "x" if hex.
- Mike
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