Hi Hussein, Awesome response.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/07/2011 10:54 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> I open my XML file with a plain text editor and insert a right double >> quote. The entity code is”. > > Please use our "Characters" tool to do that. > > Or if you prefer, Press "Esc n" (Esc then n) and then type (autocompletion) > the name of a character entity. > > See Tutorial, "Inserting special characters", > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/insert_char/index.html Yes, I need to take more time to learn the tool :) >> If I subsequently open and save the file using XMLEditor, the editor >> changes the character to”.” looks like a left double >> quote, which is wrong. >> >> Any ideas how to get the editor to stop making the replacement? >> > > --> I cannot reproduce this behavior with an XHTML document. The XHTML 1.0 > DTD contains the following character entity definition: > > In xhtml-special.ent: > > <!ENTITY rdquo "”"> <!-- right double quotation mark, > U+201D ISOnum --> > No definition of rdquor. You are right. I should have said DocBook 4.5. > --> I can reproduce this behavior with a DocBook 4 document. The DocBook > V4.5 DTD contains the following character entity definitions: > > In ent/isonum.ent: > > <!ENTITY rdquo "”" ><!--RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK --> > > In ent/isopub.ent: > > <!ENTITY rdquor "”" ><!--RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK --> > > I don't know why rdquo has been defined like that by the OASIS committee. > See > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/iso-num.html > > --> XMLmind XML Editor strictly conforms to what's specified in the DTD. > Therefore there is no bug here we could fix. OK, no problem. I have a script that builds the book. I just added: echo Fixing right double quote for file in ./*.xml; do sed --in-place 's/\”/\”/g' $file done > --> Let's suppose you are using a DocBook 4 DTD. > > There is no good way to solve your problem. If you modify > XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook/dtd/V4.5/ent/isonum.ent [*], you'll > have interchange problems. That is, it will work fine just in the context of > your local copy of XMLmind XML Editor. And this fixed 4.5 (to 4.4): echo Fixing DocBook version for file in ./*.xml; do sed --in-place -e 's/DTD DocBook XML V4.5/DTD DocBook XML V4.4/g' \ -e 's/xml\/4\.5\/docbookx\.dtd/xml\/4\.4\/docbookx\.dtd/g' $file done Thanks for the help. Jeff -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
