docbook: '>' and other character entities?


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Subject: Re: '>' and other character entities?
From: Dan York ####@####.####
Date: 6 Feb 2002 16:28:29 -0000
Message-Id: <20020206112142.L30743@e-smith.com>

Steven,

> here and there in my final output files (HTML, PDF, DVI, ...) i want to 
> have '>', '<' and the copyright character.  i've tried to put the entities 
> in my SGML (&gt;, &lt;, &copy;) but they don't come through in the HTML. 
> (i haven't checked the other formats yet.)  
> 
> how can i use those characters, and others like them in Docbook?  do 
> I need to declare them as a parameter entity or something like that?  aren't 
> those characters already built into DocBook XML V4.1.2?

I use &gt; and &lt; (and &amp;) all the time in my various DocBook
(SGML and XML) documents and have had no problems whatsoever with them.
So, yes, they do work in DocBook.  I would suspect there may be some
issue with your processing tools... what are you using?

Regards,
Dan

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