Thank you for chiming in, Brian! In the mean time, I found some sort of a 'brutal force' solution - as you might have noticed in my previous message.
You can see the result here ... the text of the web-site is in Flemish, so I suggest you rather take a look at the code ;) http://www.appeltjes-meetjesland.org The entire site is built in php, with core includes of XHTML-code "made with DataPerfect". The Library ("Bibliotheek") and Annuary ("Jaarboeken") sections both contain some very lean DP content: articles and books are classified -on user's request- by Author, Title, Subject etc... I don't know how I would have been able to do this with any other software than DP! Regards, Geert. On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:59:39 +0200, Brian Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Vriendelijke groeten, Geert De Baets mailto:[email protected] Web: http://www.debaets.be Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
