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4 Sep 2024 09:14:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: XML: what's it good for?  
From: Warp
Date: 19 Mar 2010 10:23:12
Message: <4ba388d0@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> One of the more irritating things about XML is that it doesn't support 
> character entities by name. You cannot write, say, … and get a 
> horizontal ellipsis. You have to write … instead.

  Don't you mean …? Anyways, you can do this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo [
 <!ENTITY hellip "…">
]>

<doc>
Hello… there!
</doc>

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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