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RE: [xml-dev] suppression of the transformation of character entities in

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To: "'Sascha Pogacar \(XPECT MEDIA\)'" <sascha.pogacar@xpect-media.de>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] suppression of the transformation of character entities in XSLT?
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:03:20 +0100
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In-reply-to: <6670ED33DFA7D44B9B842EA59667BD1631EE93@exserver.DATAWERK.DE>
Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>

> &#146; decimal supposes to be the right single quotation 
> mark, which comes up nicely, when you put it directly into an 
> html <div>.

As I think Rick Jelliffe has explained, it might work in HTML, but in
XML, &#148; does not represent a right single quotation mark, in fact it
does not represent a displayable character at all. In XML, numeric
character references must be Unicode code points.

Michael Kay

References:
- AW: [xml-dev] suppression of the transformation of character entities in XSLT?
  - From: "Sascha Pogacar (XPECT MEDIA)" <sascha.pogacar@xpect-media.de>

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