discuss: proper escaping required was [ Re: docbookx.dtd needs work? ]
Subject:
Re: proper escaping required was [ Re: docbookx.dtd needs work? ]
From:
"Martin A. Brown" ####@####.####
Date:
19 Jun 2004 03:40:48 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406182230250.2388@copula.wonderfrog.net>
Hi Chris,
[ I normally follow you pretty well (I think), but I'm quite
confused by this message. ]
: http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/tex-errors.html
: It's just a HTML page created through DocBook.
Right--and I grabbed the source you indicated....
: Now look at that text there:
: -----
: Its \traceon command gives you what \tracingall offers,
: -----
....and then I found this text.
: In order to get the backslash \ as a real backslash in HTML, I
: had to change every "&" to a "\" in the SGML file! That is,
: replace the entity with the character it represents! This is
: exactly the opposite of the advise given here - and of common
: sense, actually!
:
: Why?
I don't see any XML or SGML entities in this sentence. I see an
absolutely literal
Its \traceon command gives you what \tracingall
in the DocBook source.
: Because if I leave it as "& amp ; tracingall" and "& amp ;
: traceall" in the SGML file, the resulting HTML file has the first
: ampersand replaced by the ampersand entity, resulting in "& amp ;
: amp ; tracingall" and "& amp ; amp ; traceall" in the HTML file,
: which are consequently displayed as "& amp ; tracingall" and "&
: amp ; traceall" respectively!
Wouldn't &traceall in your DocBook be presented in an output
format as follows:
HTML: &traceall
text: &traceall
I'm confused about your references to \ and &.
: (I have inserted blanks in the strings above, because otherwise
: my webmail application would replace the entities with the
: ampersands and it would be a complete mess!)
Understood.
: Why is the first "&" in "& amp ;" transformed again in its
: entity by Openjade? Is it any entry in the stylesheets that
: causes this?
I'd imagine you aren't wondering why the HTML output entity is &
but I'm not sure what you are wondering.
[ snipped ]
-Martin
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Martin A. Brown --- Wonderfrog Enterprises --- ####@####.####
