On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 15:04 +0200, Andreas Mixich wrote: > when serializing a string, that contains literal XML with entities, > how do I pass through those entities unchanged?
One way is to use a character map, as Bridger Dyson-Smith described. Sometimes another way can be to have a version of the DTD in which the replacement text of the entity marks the presence of the entity, e.g. <!ENTITY eacute "&eacute;"> but this will affect full-text searching of course. Liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Webslave for old illustrations http://www.fromoldbooks.org/