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How to add entities to XSLT templates

When you work with XSLT you sometimes need special characters like “«” and “»”. You can define “entities” which can then be used in the document. Here is how:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
  <!ENTITY laquo "&#171;">
  <!ENTITY raquo "&#187;">
  <!ENTITY hellip "&#8230;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet…

You add the lines marked above. They defined a relation between a entity name and a character code. For instance the “laquo” will make it possibel for you to use « when inserting a “«”.

HTML Entities codes

The website “entitycode.com” has a very nice structured overview of HTML Entities Codes. You can see the relation between characters, their entity name, the decimal code and a short description of the character. They are very well organised in categories, go and see it for your self…

Links

Category: Code, How-to, XSLT

Tag: entities;