Re: html character entity references in sxml

[Below is a resend of an earlier message that seems to have been lost.]

As an update to it, would there be any objections to mapping HTML
non-ASCII character entity references to SXML forms like in the
examples:

    ©      (& copy)
    ā      (& 257)

> From: "Neil W. Van Dyke" <neil-iSOEUaFOKGKgBLj5vKMu3A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ssax-sxml-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: html character entity references in sxml
> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:34:16 -0500
> 
> When permissively parsing arbitrary HTML to SXML, how should we
> represent a character entity reference that cannot be mapped to an ASCII
> character?
> 
> For examples, "&copy;" or "&#257;".
> 
> I suppose those two examples could be represented as, respectively,
> '(ENTITY-REF . copy) and '(ENTITY-REF . 257) , but I'm not sure SXML
> intends that.
> 
> Note: to avoid possible Scheme implementation portability issues, I
> would like not to map from numbers to Scheme characters that are not
> printable 7-bit ASCII (or at least that are in the range of 1 to 127).
> 
> Thanks,
> Neil
> 
> -- 
>                                              http://www.neilvandyke.org/
> 


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