I’ve used such long, multi-character entities before. It requires a DTD and is defined with in the DOCTYPE statement. I’m not at all sure how to blend a DOCTYPE and a schema. The OSIS schema does not have any.
I wish I had read your answer before I replied to Greg with the same. :) Excellent. — DM > On Dec 12, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Sebastien KOECHLIN <seb.sw...@koocotte.org> > wrote: > > Hello, > > In fact, an entity can store more than a single character. It can be a string > (less > common) or a more complex structure (I've never seen it in real usage). > > See > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/en-en/library/ms256483%28v=vs.110%29.aspx > for examples. > > > To answer Greg, when you read an XML file, you create a memory tree > structure of elements (having attributes) and text nodes (and less common > nodes: comments, processing instructions...). > > When the text node is parsed, any escaping or entity is substitued with its > final value, resulting in a "canonical" string. You can not tell if any > character was put raw in the file, or if it was an entity. So "Sword", > "Sword", "Sword" and "<[CDATA[Sword]]>" result in the same text > node. You don't have to care how the text was writen in the file, you got > the same final result. > > > HTTP (not HTML) use a different encoding system with %<hexa>, (for example > %20 for space) that allow to mix easilly both escaping systems. This could > be used for escaping space(%20), colons(%3A) and percents(%25) in gloss, > lemma and morph. It should allow to represent any character in the content. > > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 08:01:31AM -0600, Greg Hellings wrote: >> If that's the case, how does it handle escaping <>? I believe entity >> replacement is after XML validation but before passing them to a >> transformer or such. >> On Dec 12, 2014 7:52 AM, "DM Smith" <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote: >> >>> Best I can recall: >>> Nope. An entity is merely an alternate way of specifying a character. The >>> XML parser is supposed to replace the entity with the corresponding code >>> point before the value is evaluated against the schema. >>> >>> On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> It should be possible to escape any such characters with an XML entity, no? >>> On Dec 12, 2014 7:44 AM, "DM Smith" <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Peter Von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Dezember 2014 um 13:16 Uhr >>>>> Von: "Troy A. Griffitts" <scr...@crosswire.org> >>>>> >>>>>> Not sure, but I thought we used optional prefixes to specify the kind >>>> of gloss if there are multiple, e.g., > gloss="en_US:18 wheeler >>>> en_UK:articulated lorry" >>>>> >>>>> Should there be an option to escape colons? >>>> >>>> IMHO: >>>> Yes. >>>> >>>> The definition of gloss in the schema is xs:string, not osisGenRegex. >>>> The former places no semantic on the content an allows for an empty >>>> string. >>>> >>>> If gloss should have a semantic, then it should be changed in the OSIS >>>> spec. >>>> >>>> The latter is used by lemma and morph and is specified as: >>>> ((((\p{L}|\p{N}|_)+)(\.(\p{L}|\p{N}|_))*:)?([^:\s])+) >>>> which basically is work:value. >>>> If I read this right it does not allow for : to be escaped. I know we >>>> allow lemma=“x:a y:b” but I don’t see that this allows for the pattern to >>>> be repeated, separated by spaces. >>>> >>>> The pattern would need to change ([^:\s])+ to (\\:|[^:\s])+ [ not >>>> tested ] >>>> >>>> In His Service, >>>> DM >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >>>> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >>>> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >>> > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
