[Omaha.pm] Fwd: [pm_admins] XML::LibXML choking on &oum;

[Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>]

This is cool stuff, so I have to log it into our archive :)

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From: Robert Spier <rspier@pobox.com>
Date: July 26, 2005 11:27:21 PM CDT
To: Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>
Cc: Perl Monger Admins <pm_admins@pm.org>
Subject: Re: [pm_admins] XML::LibXML choking on &oum;

> ./perl_mongers.xml:16445: parser error : Entity 'oum' not defined
>                          <name>Michel Kr&oum;ll</name>
> Thoughts? I'm going to take out whatever the fancy &oum; character is
> supposed to be. Doesn't seem to render in my web browser anyway...

That's not valid barebones XML.  XML only declares 5 internal
entities.  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/08/xmlqna1.html#INTENT

HTML on the other hand, declares many:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html

&oum; could be declared as an eternal entity.. but lets not go there.

I'm guessing &oum; is a typo for the HTML &ouml; which in XML would be
&#246;

-R