RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: —

[Jon Willeke <willeke@intersys.com>]

I don't understand what happens to character entities.  I have a document
with é and —.  When I convert it to HTML with the XSL DocBook
stylsheets, they pass through unchanged.  When I view the XML with Netscape
6PR1, nothing is displayed (although View Source shows é and —).

I changed an é to é.  When I convert it to HTML, it shows up
as é.  When I view it with NS6, it shows up as é.  Likewise
for — and —.

What's doing the conversion: xt, the XSL stylesheets, the DTD, or the browser?

My ulterior motive is to the opposite of John's.  I want "--" in HTML,
because Netscape 4.x doesn't recognize &mdash;.  In short, <aol>Me,
too!</aol>.

At 02:35 PM 6/29/00 -0400, John.Prabhu@macmillanUSA.com wrote:
>Thanks for the answer. But, I actually want my XML data to still have
&mdash; and when I convert it using XSL, I'd prefer to have the &mdash;
replaced as &#x8212; instead of --
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jkj@kosek.cz [mailto:jkj@kosek.cz]
>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:46 AM
>To: Prabhu, John
>Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: &mdash;
>
>On 27 Jun 2000 John.Prabhu@macmillanUSA.com wrote:
>
>> I'd like to replace &mdash; with the hex decimal value &#x8212;
>> Currently, the XSL is converting this &mdash; as two hyphens (--), but
>> I prefer to have it as &#x8212; Could someone help me in which file
>> and and what exact change I should do?
>
>One possible solution is to redefine &mdash; in the internal markup
>section. This definition will override one defined in the DocBook
>DTD. E.g.:
>
><!DOCTYPE book "...." [
><!ENTITY mdash "&#x8212;">
>]>
><book>
> ...
></book>
>
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