Chris Karakas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Vox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 20.10.04 19:25:22: > > > > > > Oh BTW, Chris, if you read this: > > what happens if the user activates '&' for names?
> The user will get the & character in a label and the SGML parser will > complain that some "entity XYZ not defined", I guess. > But you know my stand on this: the user used "&" in a label, the user > has to draw all consequences of his action. The parser will > complain, the user will have a look into the exported SGML file, > the user will recognize his mistake and will correct it. '&' and '"' will be mangled unless the user explicitly named them in "allowedNameChars". If the user allowed them, they will still be replaced by & and " since otherwise the resulting file would not be parsable. > We now have > > The user asked for "this", but he got "that" with a warning. > > which I have agreed to as a compromise. > BTW, I had such problems with "<" and ">" in URL texts. > The parser would complain "entity XYZ not defined", I would > check the SGML file and say to myself "but of course!", then > go to the URL text and enter "& lt ;" instead of "<" - and > everything would be fine. Since '&', '<', '>' and '"' are part of the DocBook syntax we will escape them whereever they could be interpreted as SGML/XML. If you want to use SGML markup, you can use a LyX SGML layout for it. '<' and '>' shouldn't have any effect in attributes, so they are allowed there. I don't know if there is a clean way to use explicit entities in IDs or other attributes. If one day LyX reads back Docbook files, they would be replaced, so there wouldn't be a roundtrip experience, which is bad. So the only clean way is to put the whole element in a LyX SGML layout, then entities in attributes aren't a problem. I'm aware that this is not what you want, but I'm afraid you wont convince a majority to do otherwise. :-) If you have an important use case which needs unescaped '&' or '"' in atrribute values, tell us and we'll think of a solution. Cheers /Andreas
