For my money, the text transform should look only for exact matches (e.g.,
"á", " ", "©") and replace them with their numeric
counterparts.
Roy


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:41 PM, jason bengtson <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> For testing purposes I just nixed them. As I noted, to rework the file a
> person would probably want to use a more critical eye with find and
> replace. Totally doable.
>
>
> On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Jon Gorman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > How did you fix the ampersands? I ask, because if you just did a simple
> > text transform from & to &amp;, it would mask the problem of the entity
> > escaping I think...
> >
> > Not at work, so I don't have a good example and the file is downloading
> > very slowly here, so I'll try to do one from memory.
> >
> > There were several &aacute; in the XML which mapped to an accent
> character
> > in the DTD via the Entity.
> >
> > If you just substituted & with &amp;, you'd get &amp;aacute;, which would
> > render inline as &accute;. It would superficially solve the issue since
> > browsers would no longer give the errors about the dtd since it wouldn't
> be
> > trying to load entities from the DTDs. And depending how you did it, you
> > likely could also replace a correctly encoded one to make &amp;amp;,
> > leading to some very odd stuff.
> >
> > I wouldn't be surprised to find some unescaped ampersands, but the
> solution
> > I posted will essentially replace the entities with their text, hopefully
> > causing most characters to appear correctly. You definitely still need to
> > fix some of the other stuff. (I suspect it never worked for most browsers
> > and XML systems, most likely only IE).
> >
> > Jon Gorman
> > University of Illinois
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA
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