[DOXIA-237] add a way to use standard HTML4/XHTML entities like α ∞ ∇ ...

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Component/s: Module - Xdoc, Module - Xhtml
• Environment: GNU/Linux
• Assignee: Lukas Theussl
• Reporter: Luc Maisonobe
• Created: 19/Apr/08 14:21
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 18:15
• Resolved: 22/Apr/08 06:57

Description

Trying to use standards entities in a xdoc file for xhtml generation seems impossible now.
If I put the entities as is in the file, I get an error at site generation because the entity is not known to Doxia. I did not find any way to declare the few entities I use, and since the xhtml generated is ISO8859-1 encoded, there would be a problem afterwards because they do not belong to this encoding.
If I try to escape the '&' character, either by using &nabla; or <![CDATA[∇]]>, the escape works well at site generation step, but is still there in the generated xhtml (on both cases I end up with &nabla.
I would like to have some intermediate behaviour, escaping a '&' from doxia parser but having it put verbatim in the generated xhtml file.
I am completely blocked here.