RE: RE: special characters

Oooops!.. Thanks for advise.

Cheers

Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of 
> David
> Carlisle
> Sent: 23 May 2003 11:28
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] special characters
>
>
>
> Gary Cornelius wrote
>
>   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&eacute;</xsl:text>
>
>
> It's almost always a bad idea to suggest to someone that they use
> disable-output-escaping.
>
> There is no need here in the HTML output method, most processors will
> output the character as an entity automatically without you needing to
> do any entity definitions or d-o-e in the stylesheet.
>
>   Then setup characters.ent...
>
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>   <!-- latin capital letter E with grave, U+00C8 ISOlat1 &#201; -->
>   <!ENTITY eacute "&eacute;">
>
> That would be a very dangerous file. It could be considered a denial of
> service attack: It will put any XML parser into an infinite loop if it
> ever finds an instance of &eacute;.
>
> David
>
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