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alex_panganiban
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5 years ago

XML Generator, Entity referenced, but not declared

I’m having trouble using the XML Generator with data that contains special symbols and characters. All the usual suspects (<, >, &, ", ', ) have been taken care of by using the HTML notations <, >, &...
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mbowen
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Replacing &reg; with the decimal equivalent may work (ie, &#174;). There is
also an "Escape Special Characters" checkbox which will escape many special
characters.

For example, < -> &lt; 

Though representation may not be correct if already escaped, for example, &lt; -> &amp;lt;
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alex_panganiban
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I tried playing with the “escape special characters” option, but it just dropped my special charcter data instead of leaving the escaped notations as they were.

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    mbowen
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    5 years ago
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    Hmmm… Frustrating indeed. Let me conduct an experiment too.

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      alex_panganiban
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      5 years ago
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      I’m wondering if there’s a way to make the XML Generator and the XML Formatter ignore escaped codes and leave them as they are instead of rendering them. It would be nice if &reg/&174 behaved the same way as &lt and &gt

      Thanks for helping me look at this!

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        mbowen
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        I still need to investigate this. For the Formatter, do you check the “Format as canonical XML” checkbox?