Re: nbsp question

So you're saying that 1.) the webpage should show the character represented;
2.) the view source should show the named entity, and 3.) the saved text
should actually have the numeric entity value?

Ugh.  Now if there's an application for Occam's Razor, this is it.

Patrick Rourke

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng" <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
To: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
Cc: <www-amaya@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: nbsp question


> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, P. T. Rourke wrote:
>
> > Please use numeric (e.g., &#160;) rather than named entities to maintain
> > closer compatibility with XML.
>
> Maybe the user could choose how these are seen?  I'd prefer these
> numerical identifiers to be given names when possible, even if it is
> better to have the numerical form in the text Amaya outputs to disk.
> (See "The Pragmatic Programmer", Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, Addison
> Wesley, Chapter Five, section: "It's just a view".)
> >
> > Patrick Rourke
> >
> Hugh
> hgs@dmu.ac.uk
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Irene VATTON" <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
> > To: "A & R Sims" <sims@camtech.net.au>
> > Cc: <www-amaya@w3.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: nbsp question
> >
> >
> [...]
> > > The entity &nbsp; can be inserted in Amaya by Control+space.
> > > When saving a document Amaya generates the ISO-Latin 1 code of the
> > character
> > > instead
> > > of the entity value.
> > > We could change the Amaya export if you think that the entity is
better.
> > > --
> > >      Irene.
> > >
>

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