Hi -- On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, TAKAHASHI Masayoshi wrote: > We have some options. > > a) "'" and '"' are automatically converted entity reference always. > b) "'" and '"' are converted if it's attribute's value. > c) Attribute object has @quote_mark variable which character use > in serializing, and "'" and '"' are converted when @quote_mark > uses same character. > d) XMLWriter object has @quote_mark variable which character use > in writing, and "'" and '"' are converted when @quote_mark > uses same character. Is there really that much flexibility? I'm looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#entproc which "summarizes the contexts in which character references, entity references, and invocations of unparsed entities might appear and the required behavior of an XML processor in each case." Or am I (again) talking about entity resolution when the rest of you are talking about de-resolution? (replacing single characters with entity references) Which I still wonder about.... David -- David Alan Black home: dblack / candle.superlink.net work: blackdav / shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav