discuss: proper escaping required was [ Re: docbookx.dtd needs work? ]
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Re: proper escaping required was [ Re: docbookx.dtd needs work? ]
From:
"Chris Karakas" ####@####.####
Date:
19 Jun 2004 17:27:59 -0000
Message-Id: <200406191727.i5JHQkbh020031@fmmailgate01.web.de>
"Martin A. Brown" ####@####.#### schrieb am 19.06.04 05:41:05:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
Hi Martin,
> [ I normally follow you pretty well (I think), but I'm quite
> confused by this message. ]
>
Thanks for trying to help me with that. :-)
> : 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.
Exactly. And this is exactly my problem! I *must* write the literal backslash "\" istead of its entity "& bsol ;" in the SGML file, although this goes against logic (now I see why you were confused, sorry! I should have written "bsol" and not "amp" in certain places!).
So let me try to explain it again, I hope with the right words this time! ;-)
If I write "& bsol ; something" in my SGML file (because I want to see it displayed as "\something" in my browser), then this becomes in the HTML file: "& amp ; bsol ; something"! It looks as if Openjade (maybe guided by the stylesheets...) replaces the starting ampersand of the backslash entity "& bsol ;" to its entity again (i.e. replaces the starting "&" with "& amp ;" in "& bsol ; something", giving "& amp ; bsol ; something". Now this results in a displayed string "& bsol ; something", because the browser will take the "& amp ;" in "& amp ; bsol ; something" and replace it with a "&". And this is of course wrong, because I want to see a displayed "\something".
Again, in all the above, just take out the blanks in the strings to get the ones I really mean.
I hope it's clear this time.
I am suspecting the HTML stylesheets I use. Maybe it's some setting wrong there. If you really want to check them, see here
http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/dsssl-stylesheets.html
and have a look at the HTML stylesheets there. Note that I have *not* modified the standard Norman Walsh stylesheets (I use v. 1.78 from SuSE 9.0), but rather I have put any changes I wanted to make in the lyxtox-* stylesheets that you will find in the above link. Thus, you have complete information on my settings.
Thanks again for your help.
Chris
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Regards
Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de
