Hi Geert, The entities were added basically for XML, with the expeactation that they would all work with HTML. I always seem to be taking a different approach to correcting them, but I think I agree that the consensus that the ' should be used instead. Perhaps if other weigh in on this, and if Lew has time he might be able to make that change.
Depending on where my problem has occurred I have used Javascript to convert it and I think for one scenario I added an XML entity declaration to the XML (XHTML) file which I think managed to override the predefined XML entity. Regards Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 19 August 2010 12:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dataperf] Problem with DP2.6Y: named character ' does not work in Internet Explorer Hi all, As specified in the readme.txt file that comes with both versions DP2.6Y, the print format ;;W acts on all of the XML/XHTML predefined entities, & & " " ' ' < < > > This works perfectly on Opera, Firefox, Google Chrome etc. However, Internet Explorer has a problem to interpret XHTML doctype declarations, and shows the named character ' as "&apos", instead of showing the "'" character. It's a well-known problem and I found lots of articles commenting the problem. W3C suggests authors to use ' instead of ' to work as expected in user agents that do not support XHTML (and IE is one of them). My question to the group: - Has any of you encountered the same problem and has anyone found a workaround? My question to Lew: - Would it be possible to create a dedicated version of DP26YI.EXE to address this problem (using ' instead of '), or is there a workaround? Thanking you in advance for your help and ideas :) Geert. ================ Related articles ================ (please note that I dropped the http from each of the following URL's, not to get them stripped from the message): 1: inthemaze.net/post/2008/04/08/46-ie7-and-apos Quote: The XML entity "'" is not displayed properly under IE7. Instead of showing the single quote, as I would expect, it shows "'". 2: fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/07/01/the_curse_of_apos/ Quote: ' was introduced as a standard entity in XML, and thus is also standard in XHTML. Even if you are using XHTML, if you wish to produce web-pages that are backwards compatible with browsers that do not support XHTML (and IE is one of them), you should avoid '. 3: w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes Quote: Note, however, that, although it is part of the XML language, ' is not defined in HTML 4.01. For this reason the XHTML specification recommends instead the use of ' if text may be passed to an HTML user agent. In addition, some browsers do not support ' in HTML. 4: w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html#C_16 Quote: The named character reference ' (the apostrophe, U+0027) was introduced in XML 1.0 but does not appear in HTML. Authors should therefore use ' instead of ' to work as expected in HTML 4 user agents. _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
