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Subject: [docbook-tc] FW: DOCBOOK: XML Character Entities Version 0.2
Hi Greg, I went ahead and filed an RFE for about the possible errors you found in the descriptions in the XML character entity files. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=538187&group_id=21935&atid=384107 And I'm cc'ing the DocBook TC mailing list on this. Regards, --Mike Smith
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- From: Greg Murray <gpm2a@neon.mail.virginia.edu>
- To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:49:47 -0500 (EST)
There are a handful of descriptions in the DocBook entity files that appear to be incorrect, and are therefore a bit confusing. For the cdot entity (iso-lat2.ent) <!ENTITY cdot "ċ"> <!-- DOT OPERATOR --> the correct description would be <!ENTITY cdot "ċ"> <!-- LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH DOT ABOVE --> In iso-num.ent, the description for <!ENTITY ast "*"> <!-- ASTERISK OPERATOR --> should probably be simply "ASTERISK", for consistency with other characters that accompany it in the entity set, such as "NUMBER SIGN", "PERCENT SIGN", "COMMERCIAL AT", and so forth. "ASTERISK OPERATOR" is a different Unicode character, not the regular asterisk referred to by x002A. Also in iso-num.ent, the descriptions for the following <!ENTITY larr "←"> <!-- LEFTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW --> <!ENTITY rarr "→"> <!-- RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW --> should say simply "ARROW", not "DOUBLE ARROW". Since these suggestions only pertain to the descriptions, not the character mapping themselves, they are, of course, very minor. Nevertheless I wanted to bring these matters to your attention, in the event that you consider them worth fixing. Thank you for maintaining the closest thing we have to a definitive, authoritative, standard set of ISO 8879 entity files for use with XML. Greg Murray =================================== Greg Murray XML/Text Programmer Digital Library Production Services University of Virginia Library murray@virginia.edu (434) 924-6732 ===================================--- End Message ---
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