Thanks, that's it. It would appear that this is a bug limited to Safari, Camino and Firefox (both use Gecko) do the translation properly.
I'll see if I can figure out what's up with Safari/WebKit and post a solution. - David On 2/9/07, David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please test on different browsers? I thought & amp ; worked. > > If you look in > http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/sources.js > and search for "deEntify", you see that & and the likes should have > been converted to a Unicode character using this utility > http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/util/html.js > > David > > biscuit technologies wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to the list so excuse me if this has been answered before - I > > searched the archive and couldn't find an answer. > > > > I'm trying to place an ampersand character in the title of an event > > and as expected if I just type the ampersand character I get an error. > > > > What's curious though is if I try to use the UTF equivalent, 'amp > > pound 38 semicolon' or the HTML equivalent of 'amp a m p semicolon' I > > get returned the UTF code literally back. > > > > I understand that ampersand is a reserved character in XML, but is > > there a standard replacement technique worked into simile? > > > > thanks in advance, > > David > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
