Re: [xml] getting named entities on output?

[Chris Ryland <cpr emsoftware com>]

On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 01:32  PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:51:30AM -0400, Chris Ryland wrote:
> > Is there any way, short of writing a custom output function, to get
> > named entities (say, all the ISO Latin 1 entities) produced on output
> > instead of the numeric &#nnn; entity form?
>
>   Which names. In XML there is no predefined names for character
> points except < > & " and ' . You're asking for something which
> exists in the HTML world but not in XML. You can try saving
> with the "HTML" encoding name but you may just end up with
> broken XML as a result.

Yes, I understand there are no "standard" entity names, but there are 
in my application of libxml2 (they're built-in, like HTML's).

And, I presume if entity names are found by XML transformation tools 
(like libxslt), they'll just be left alone.

Cheers!
--Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com