Steven Noels wrote:
>
> I'm using a DTD which has element names with dots in it (e.g.
> code.block). So I created a CSS definition:
>
> code.block {
> white-space: pre;
> display: block;
> background-color: #E0E0E0;
> border: thin solid gray;
> font-family: monospace;
> font-size: .83em;
> margin-top: 1.33ex;
> margin-bottom: 1.33ex;
> }
>
> but unfortunately, that style wasn't triggered. When I got rid of the
> dot in the element name in both my document and stylesheet, everything
> was working fine...
>
> I tried my luck by defining my style selector using an escape character
> before the dot, and behold! everything was working fine:
>
> code\.block {
> //... (leave stuff as-is)
> }
Excellent idea you had.
Note that for XXE, like with for any Web browser, code.block is a
shorthand notation for code[class~="block"] (and code#block is a
shorthand notation for code[id="block"]).
