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Special characters within IzPack XML

Posted on July 31, 2014
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If you need some defined XML entities like é within the IzPack installation XML, you can’t use it there. The reason: they aren’t defined. But you can define a subset within your XML:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
  <!DOCTYPE installation [
  <!ENTITY % iso-lat1 PUBLIC "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN//XML"
                    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlcharent/0.3/iso-lat1.ent">
  %iso-lat1;
  ]>
  <installation version="1.0">
    <!-- start here -->
  </installation>

These additional lines include the usual entities. It is now possible to use:

  <authors>
    <author name="Andr&eacute; Rothe" email="andre.rothe@domain.local" />
  </authors>
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