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XML newbie - How can 'character entities' be displayed in the Insert Symbol dialog?

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XML newbie - How can 'character entities' be displayed in the Insert Symbol dialog?

app: Arbortext v5.3 M010, OS: Windows XP Pro

I am working on our first custom XML application for Arbortext. For legacy reasons, we are using a DTD (as we do with all of the SGML applications). This DTD does not inlude any entities, but the XML declaration makes all unicode8 legal within the documents.

Is there any way to get more than the default 5 XML entities to show up in the Insert Symbol dialog without modifying the DTD?

Thanks for any help.

- karen dL.

3 REPLIES 3

Hi Karen,

You can create a .acl file and place the following 'set' command in the

Hi Karen,

Karen de Luna wrote:
> Is there any way to get more than the default 5 XML entities to show up
> in the Insert Symbol dialog without modifying the DTD?

I may be missing something in your specific configuration, but if the entities are not defined in the DTD, how does Arbortext know what to replace the entities with?

Cheers,
Gareth

Karen,

In addition to David's suggestion, which is exactly the way I'daccomplish this, ensure that any entity that you put in this list is in the character entity files available to your users. These are files called something like "iso-pub.ent". If they are not in your application custom folder, check in the install folder for the entities folder. Each file defines the actual character entities for that "set." If you don't have the file, but insert the entity, Arbortext will yell at you about not have the character entity available and show you a tag instead of the symbol.

Oh, also if you do not have an instance.acl file in your doctype folder, it's easy enough to create it with a text editor. Nothing special has to go in the file other then the line "set entitylist = "dagger apos..." all on one line. If you already have an instance.acl file, you want to put this command near the top, but there isn't a specific place, as long as it is before anything else that could possibly use the information.

Hope this helps,

Bob

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