HTML character entities in XML files

[Lynne A. Price]

At 11:32 AM 1/9/2006, Mark Barratt wrote:
>In this case I need to suck in xhtml character entities but save out 
>UTF-8-encoded Unicode for the next application in the workflow

Mark,
   Create two versions of the DTD, one with the entity declarations and one 
without. Use the one with the entity declarations to import your document 
and the one without the declarations for export. I'd create the following 
files:

main.dtd (element type and attribute definition list declarations)

entity.mod (module with entity declarations)

main.entity.dtd:
    <!ENTITY % main SYSTEM "main.dtd">
    %main;
    <!ENTITY % entity SYSTEM "entity.mod">
    &entity;

Then I'd import files that start:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xxx SYSTEM "main.entity.dtd">

However, I'd specify main.dtd as the DTD in the XML application.

         --Lynne






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