Named Character Elements for XML (O'Reilly)

[Posted January 8, 2003 by cook]

Anthony Coates and Zarella Rendon show how to deal with special characters in XML. "HTML users are used to having a lot of named character entities available. They can use " " to insert a non-breaking space, "©" to insert a copyright symbol, and "€" to insert the symbol for the new European currency, the Euro. However, most symbols are not automatically defined in XML. To make them available, you have to use a DTD that defines them or you have to define them in the internal DTD subset of your document."

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