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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 &, 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 á in the XML which mapped to an accent > character > > in the DTD via the Entity. > > > > If you just substituted & with &, you'd get &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;, > > 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 > Head of Library Computing and Information SystemsAssistant Professor, > Graduate CollegeDepartment of Health Sciences Library and Information > ManagementUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center405-271-2285, opt. > 5405-271-3297 (fax) > [log in to unmask] > http://library.ouhsc.edu > www.jasonbengtson.com > > NOTICE: > This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is > addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or > otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the > intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please > immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed > email address. Thank You. >