Article:		The Long, Long Arm of SGML
Subject:		xmlchar
Date:		2003-11-08 03:59:08
From:		Anthony Coates
Another alternative is the 'xmlchar' library, which Zarella Rendon & I based on some earlier musings of Tim's. It is just a set of XML elements, one for each special character, that you can embed in your documents. Then there is an XSLT stylesheet that lets you do a final post-process to convert the xmlchar elements into numeric character references. Simplistic, but it works. So far it only covers the HTML special characters, but that contains 80% of the special characters used by 80% of the people. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlchar/

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• xmlchar
  2003-11-08 04:01:14 Anthony Coates
  
  Oh yes, nearly forgot, Zarella and I did an XML.com article about it a while back.
  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/02/xmlchar.html