On 19 Apr 2018, at 14:44, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

On 4/19/2018 10:53 AM, Hans van der Meer wrote:

The following use of character entities &#038; aborts in ConTeXt. That is of course because the # is seen as a parameter. Changing this to &\#xxx; or &\letterhash xxx; typesets &#038; as is, but that is not the intention, because an ampersand should appear. So, how do I proceed here?
Minimal example:
% test character entity failure.
\startxmlsetups demo:entity
\xmlsetsetup{#1}{root}{demo:entity:*}
\stopxmlsetups
\xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{demo:entity}
\startxmlsetups demo:entity:root
\blank Start test:\crlf
root: <amp> = "&amp;"\crlf
root: <number> = "&\letterhash 038;”\crlf % &\#038; produces the same
End test\blank
\stopxmlsetups

you are tex mode there so & == &

\startbuffer[demo]
<root></root>
\stopbuffer
\starttext
\currentdate-\currenttime\quad\ConTeXt-version=\contextversion\blank
{\bf Testing use of character entities}\blank
These should produce the same result: \type{&amp;} and \type{&#038;}\blank
\xmlprocessbuffer{demo}{demo}{}\blank
\stoptext
dr. Hans van der Meer
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