docbook: Thread: '>' and other character entities?

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?

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alright.  i've found the <copyright> element, which gives me 
the (C) character.  but i still need to use the '>' character.

On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:19, Steven Sanfratello wrote:
> 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?
> 
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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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On Wednesday 06 February 2002 11:21, Dan York wrote:
> Steven,
> 
> I use > and < (and &) 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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> Dan York, Product Line Manager, SME Server and ServiceLink

this is the line i use to convert to html.
jade -t sgml -i html -E 65534 -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.61/common/ldp.dsl\#html ../../LDP/howto/docbook/rpmupgrade.sgml/rpmupgrade.sgml

my public identifyer is: -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN

this is my first time learning using docbook/jade.  i've 
attempted to install several different sgml tools and 
jade was the first one that i got working, that's the 
only reason that i'm using it.

do you see anything obviously wrong with that command line?
which DTD and DSSSL that you prefer?
 
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