Re: Entity references in xml output

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Another solution along these lines would be to use your pre-process to turn
your & signs in your entities into & entities -- é becomes
é which looks like the string é to the parser, so that's
what you'll get in output.

It's no good if you want some entities to be passed and not others, of
course: all will be affected.

--Wendell

At 10:08 PM 3/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, David Carlisle wrote:
>> 
>> If you want to think of XML as characters in a file rather than as
>> trees of nodes then xslt will be very hard to use and you would be
>> better to use a language designed to work on text striungs, such as
>> perl.
>> 
>
>   Which is not always a bad choice for dealing with xml. It has served me
>well. Of course xml is pretty hard to deal with in Perl without passing it
>through a parser first, which puts you right back in the same situation in
>terms of the references. 
>
>   But if you're using Perl you might as well follow in the long tradition
>of Perl hacks that _work right now_ (as opposed to tomorrow,
>when something changes). Substitute some string that won't
>bother the xml parser but is also sure not to naturally occur in your
>document for each entity reference. Grab the Perl xml parser and parse
>your file. Substitute the original references back
>in. Then spit out your transformed file....


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