Re: [xml-dev] XML -> SGML serialization. Any ideas ?

[Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp>]

On 13/07/2018 11:00, Christophe Marchand wrote:
> I have to give data to a very old application, which can only read SGML.
>
> My data structure is really simple (records of filename, title), but 
I hope that you don't have any empty elements.

> contains characters that are not ASCII. So I have to translate them to 
> use entities (I think SGML has a set of declared entities for characters 
> with accents, as é, @agrave;, and so on).
>
> I'd like the file could be read by XML parsers too, and I'm looking for 
> a method to produce an XML that is also SGML. I think to use XSL with 
> characters map, but how could I define the embeded DTD, with all 
> entities defined ?
Use the "XML Entity Definitions for Characters":
https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/

It also has an XSLT2 stylesheet for mapping from Unicode characters to
entity references.

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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Senior Architect
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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