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Re: [docbook-apps] DB soft-hyphen characters and DB 5: entity doesn't work

  • 1.  Re: [docbook-apps] DB soft-hyphen characters and DB 5: entity doesn't work

    Posted 02-03-2011 22:51
    Hi Tom,
    The ­ entity is declared to be the same character reference ­, so if the
    character reference works then the problem is in resolving the entity reference. I
    infer from your use of the -ns- stylesheets that you are using DocBook 5. The DocBook
    5 RNG schema does not support entity declarations, so ­ is not declared in your
    documents. You should be getting a parsing error to that effect.

    A workaround is required to use the DocBook entity declarations from DocBook 4. See
    this reference for more information:

    http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Db5Entities.html#CharEntities

    Let me know if I'm misunderstanding the problem.

    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    bobs@sagehill.net


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Tom Browder" <tom.browder@gmail.com>
    To: "Docbook Apps Help list" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
    Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:49 PM
    Subject: [docbook-apps] DB soft-hyphen characters and DB 5: entity doesn't work


    > Bob Stayton, on p. 172 of his book, says one can use either of two
    > characters to produce a soft-hyphen (invisible unless the hyphen is
    > used to break a line):
    >
    > Unicode character '­'
    > DB entity '­'
    >
    > With xsltproc, docbook-xsl-ns-1.76.1, and fop 1.0 the Unicode
    > character works but the entity doesn't.
    >
    > I've tried '&db:shy' but no go. What am I something wrong?
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > Best,
    >
    > -Tom
    >
    > Thomas M. Browder, Jr.
    > Niceville, Florida
    > USA
    >
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  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] DB soft-hyphen characters and DB 5: entity doesn't work

    Posted 02-04-2011 00:13
    On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 16:51, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
    > Hi Tom,
    > The ­ entity is declared to be the same character reference ­, so
    > if the character reference works then the problem is in resolving the entity
    > reference. I infer from your use of the -ns- stylesheets that you are using
    ...
    > DocBook 5. The DocBook 5 RNG schema does not support entity declarations, so
    > ­ is not declared in your documents.  You should be getting a parsing

    I now remember I read that somewhere, in your book, I believe--sorry.

    In fact, as I try again, the exact error message is

    parser error : Entity 'shy' not defined

    Thanks, Bob.

    Regards,

    -Tom



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