docbook: Thread: special characters within formated text

Hi

I have some code of the form

 <example id="hooks.cpp">
        <title>hooks.cpp</title>
        <programlisting>
	sys_bus = new CBus<MEMTYPE, ADDRTYPE> ( "SYS_BUS", 32, 8);
        </programlisting>
        </example>

When I compile this using xsltproc, I get the following error:

mem.xml:180: error: error parsing attribute name
    sys_bus = new CBus<MEMTYPE, ADDRTYPE> ( "SYS_BUS", 32, 8);
                                                                      ^

The arrow is to the comma between MEMTYPE and ADDRTYPE.

It appears that this and other similar errors are caused by the parser 
recognising these as special characters.

How can I, in the xml file, tell the compiler to ignore these so I can use 
formated text without limitations?

Thanks in advance
Alasdair

The character entities you're looking for are at:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/iso-num.html

Usage: #entity;

Hope that helps out!

Tabatha

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:22, Alasdair Hatfield wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have some code of the form
> 
>  <example id="hooks.cpp">
>         <title>hooks.cpp</title>
>         <programlisting>
> 	sys_bus = new CBus<MEMTYPE, ADDRTYPE> ( "SYS_BUS", 32, 8);
>         </programlisting>
>         </example>
> 
> When I compile this using xsltproc, I get the following error:
> 
> mem.xml:180: error: error parsing attribute name
>     sys_bus = new CBus<MEMTYPE, ADDRTYPE> ( "SYS_BUS", 32, 8);
>                                                                       ^
> 
> The arrow is to the comma between MEMTYPE and ADDRTYPE.
> 
> It appears that this and other similar errors are caused by the parser 
> recognising these as special characters.
> 
> How can I, in the xml file, tell the compiler to ignore these so I can use 
> formated text without limitations?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Alasdair
> 
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Whoops, the usage should have read: &entity;

:D

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 02:38, Tabatha Marshall wrote:
> The character entities you're looking for are at:
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/iso-num.html
> 
> Usage: #entity;
> 
> Hope that helps out!
> 
> Tabatha
> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:22, Alasdair Hatfield wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have some code of the form
> > 
> >  <example id="hooks.cpp">
> >         <title>hooks.cpp</title>
> >         <programlisting>
> > 	sys_bus = new CBus<MEMTYPE, ADDRTYPE> ( "SYS_BUS", 32, 8);
> >         </programlisting>
> >         </example>
> > 
> > When I compile this using xsltproc, I get the following error:
> > 
> > mem.xml:180: error: error parsing attribute name
> >     sys_bus = new CBus<MEMTYPE, ADDRTYPE> ( "SYS_BUS", 32, 8);
> >                                                                       ^
> > 
> > The arrow is to the comma between MEMTYPE and ADDRTYPE.
> > 
> > It appears that this and other similar errors are caused by the parser 
> > recognising these as special characters.
> > 
> > How can I, in the xml file, tell the compiler to ignore these so I can use 
> > formated text without limitations?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Alasdair
> > 
> > ______________________
> > http://lists.tldp.org/
-- 
Tabatha Marshall
Web: www.merlinmonroe.com
Linux Documentation Project Review Coordinator (http://www.tldp.org)
Linux Counter Area Manager US:wa (http://counter.li.org)

I believe you're looking for CDATA:

<![CDATA[
  ...
]]>

CDATA allows you to use any special XML characters like < or >
with impunity, with the obvious exception of the string "]]>"
itself.

So:
        <programlisting><![CDATA[
        sys_bus = new CBus<MEMTYPE, ADDRTYPE> ( "SYS_BUS", 32, 8);
        ]]></programlisting>

should work.

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