See below. > On Jul 31, 2025, at 8:53 AM, David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com > <mailto:dfh...@protonmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi DM, > > Further to the feedback relating to the recent updates of the FreGeneve1669 > module... > > Has anyone yet created an issue in JIRA for the failure of libsword to output > the & character wherever a module contains the XML entity & ?
I didn’t see any when I surveyed the Jira issues. I noticed that &c. is quite common in the KJV margin notes, and front matter. > > Which other XML entities have the same issue? > Likely candidates include < and > > There may be others such as ' and " Yes these are other possible problems. > > Does the issue also pertain to their numerical equivalents, whether in > decimal or hexadecimal form? e.g. &x#0027; We have a Jira issue to convert these to their unicode equivalent. I’m almost done with that code, having started yesterday. > Any remedy should also take account that some such entities are also valid > when the name is uppercase, e.g. & The remedy is that xmllint will complain as it is not valid in xml. This should be a friend of all OSIS module makers. Also, osis2mod will properly convert it to &AMP; And it will output a diagnostic for the conversion. > > Further reading: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references > > Best regards, > > David > > Sent with Proton Mail <https://pr.tn/ref/SWXT9A5YZ67G> secure email. > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > <mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org> > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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