Hussein Shafie wrote: > Benoit Maisonny wrote: > >> XXE's documentation about this save option[1] is quite clear: only >> characters "not supported by the encoding" are converted to an entity >> reference. >> > > Except the non-breaking space character (for historical reasons, I > guess). See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.dialog.PreferencesEditorDialog.html#saveOptions > > --- > Always save these characters as entity references > ... > Note > > There is no need to specify the non-breaking space character (nbsp = 160 > = 0xa0 = 0240) as it is always saved as " " or as " ". > --- > > I can't believe I missed this note as it was just there on my screen :-) Sorry for the noise!
> > >> Then, why do I get Unicode character number xA0 converted to in a >> UTF-8 encoded document? xA0 is a supported character in UTF-8, isn't it. >> >> Easy workaround: I added a saveOptions/@charsSavedAsEntityRefs = false >> to my XXE config. This still converts xA0 to   but that's better >> for me than the entity ref. >> > > > I can easily remove this inconsistency if you wish. > Well, it doesn't harm thanks to the workaround and I guess you have more important items on your TODO list, so... maybe later. My problem was really that I don't always have the doctype present (because of my document being split), so I cannot have nbsp, even if XXE sees the DTD.
