Re: [docbook-apps] Question on CDATA in XML

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:51 +0200
"Fabien Tillier" <f.tillier@cerep.fr> wrote:

> Ok, so I have changed my RTF to HTML conversion stuff so that it
> strips all HTML tags (so I am loosing some formatting), and it works
> better (I don't have thoses CDATA things anymore), except that I have
> encoded characters (like &amp;alpha;)

You need to check your character level encoding throughout,
end to end.
Once it's in XML, &amp; => & etc.
If you want alpha, then use unicode character level encoding,
e.g. & # x 0 3 b 1 ;  (spaced in case it is messed up)


 that are showing up (which is
> perfectly normal) but are not displayed by the browser as their
> entity counterpart (here an alpha symbol). I assume I am missing
> something like a transformation from &amp;alpha; to &alpha; Is it
> something that has to be implemented specifically (and how) in a
> customization template or is there a magical option that can be
> used ? Thanks a lot in advance Best regards, Fabien

Once in XML that alpha as a character entity is just as valid as any
other character.
Prior to that, it's up to you.

HTH


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