xml-dev - Re: How can I put entity refs back into a document?

[Robin LaFontaine <robin@monsell.co.uk>]

Rick, Aurenz,

Thanks for your replies. A couple of clarifications:

1. Rick asks: 'Do you mean entity references or numeric character references?'
I mean entity references as specified in the DTD.

2. Aurenz: I do not want to simply disable the entity translation 
processing because I want to manipulate the data with the entities 
expanded, and then write the file out again. But if it is written out 
without the entities then it looks a lot different for the user. So, 
it would be preferable to put the entities back in again!

Neither of you seems to have a solution to this one! Perhaps I will 
have to do it myself, but it seems surprising that there is not a 
common solution.

Robin


At 3:11 am +0800 10/5/00, Rick JELLIFFE wrote:
>"Aurenz, Scot" wrote:
> >
> > > Is there an easy way to process an XML document and put the entity
> > > references back into it?
>
>Do you mean entity references or numeric character references?
>
>If it is the latter, you can try a lossless transcoder. The only one of
>these public is xml-tcs, which you can find at
>
>http://www.ascc.net/xml/en/utf-8/transcode-index.html
>
>This is a set of patches to Plan9's tcs. Because of copyright I cannot
>ship a combined version or a binary, but you can put the pieces
>together. It can convert characters not available in the output encoding
>into various formats, including doubly delimited:
>
>                STRIP: no delimiter,
>                UNKNOWN: put in unknown character indicator "?" or FFFD
>                UNICODE: Unicode-style U+HHHH
>                JAVA: Java-style \uHHHH
>                JAVA_DD: Java-style \\uHHHH
>                XML: XML-style &#xHHHH;
>                XML_DD: XML-style &#xHHHH;
>                SPREAD1: Old SPREAD &U-HHHH;
>                SPREAD1_DD: Old SPREAD &U-HHHH;
>                SPREAD2: New SPREAD &UHHHH;
>                SPREAD2_DD: New SPREAD &UHHHH;
>                CSS1: CSS1 \HHHH
>                CSS1_DD: CSS1 \\HHHH
>                CSS2: CSS2 \\00HHHH (space following is delimiter)
>                CSS2_DD: CSS2 \\00HHHH (space following is delimiter)
>                SGML: SGML-, HTML (< 4) and Netscape style decimal
>&#DDDDDD;
>                SGML_DD: SGML-style &amp;#DDDDDD;
>
>
>Rick Jelliffe

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