Joshua Slive wrote: > On 10/13/06, Jeff McAdams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Basically all it does is replace " " with " ". For some >> reason, Firefox doesn't seem to find the entity definition for " ". > > It is my understanding (based on possibly-faulty long-term memory) > that we define certain entities in external dtds. (See, for example, > style/lang.dtd.) For security reasons, browser-based xml renderers > will not read external dtds, so this essentially prevents direct > rendering.
> I don't think there is any easy workaround, since using only numeric
> entities would make the source of the docs quite unreadable, and would
> prevent the use of things like the version number entities defined in
> style/version.ent. But we're always interested in other ideas or
> opinions.
Yes, all those thoughts went through my head when I was looking at this.
And, yes, I saw that it was in lang.dtd. I had not realized that there
were other entities that would blow these things up.
So, I would agree...probably a fool's errand to start down that path.
Ah well, couple of things learned, so that's a bit of a useful endeavor,
I guess.
--
Jeff McAdams
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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