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At 12:08 PM 5/22/01 +0100, Christopher Tipper wrote:
>Dear Hans,
>
>I have a query about XML entities. When I am using XSLT (james clark's
excellent XT processor) I have to pass HTML entities through in the form
&amp;pound; as opposed to &pound;. As a result all my source XML has
entitities in this format and my sources are thus currently incomaptible
with ConTeXt XML processing engine.
>
>When I put &pound; in my XML I get the following result
>
>Reference to undefined entity 'pound'. Line 20, Position 206 
>
>Maybe Context is not compatible with XSLT?

Well, contetx is not xslt at all; but, even if so, then how would you
typeset & ? 

Anyhow, you want a hack? First change this in xtag-ini: 

\gdef\xdoXMLentity#1;%
  {\ifXMLrawentities
     \expandafter\firstofoneargument
   \else
     \expandafter\executeXMLentity
   \fi{#1}}

Now you can say: 

\defineXMLentity[amp] {\FunnyAmp}

\def\FunnyAmp#1;{\getXMLentity{#1}}

\defineXMLentity [pound] {(why not use euro's?)}

And here we go: 

\startXMLdata
test &amp;pound; test
\stopXMLdata

Now, is this a hack or not? 

Hans

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