Subject: Re: & character in tags From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:47:26 -0600 (MDT) |
> to get the reference to all chars. go to this > http://www.webreference.com/dlab/books/html/3-4-tab.html , I found it > really good . That table is for HTML and contains at least one error (look at ±). Even if you are generating HTML output, your stylesheet is XML. The numeric character references in that table are fairly accurate, but the 'mnemonic entities' are not, for XML. With the exception of < > & ' and ", the named entities are unknown to an XML parser, which would be used by an XSL processor to read in the stylesheet. Also, that table can be misleading because it relies on the browser's ability to display the correct glyphs. There is no charset parameter supplied in a <meta> element, nor is the document served with one in the HTTP headers. Do not use that table. When writing HTML, follow the rules in sections 5.3.1 and 5.3.2 of the HTML 4.01 specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ and use the sample glyphs in the charts at http://charts.unicode.org/Web.html When writing XML or XHTML, review sections 2.2 and 4.1 of the XML 1.0 Recommendation at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml and again, use the charts at the Unicode site. - Mike ___________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer, Webb Interactive Services XML/XSL stuff: http://www.skew.org/ http://www.webb.net/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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