XML Entity Conversion

Example: if the character entity is >, the translator sees the character >, and the translated character is encoded as entity >.

If a character entity is not selected for conversion, the entity reference (>) is displayed rather than the character (>).

The Entity conversion page has two panes: Entity Conversion and Entity Mappings.

Entity Conversion

Box

Description

Convert Entities

Select this check box to enable entity conversion. If you clear this box, no conversion takes place.

Advanced

Click this button to display the Advanced XML Entity Settings dialog box where you can specify when characters are converted between entity representation and character representation.

The list of entity sets has the following columns.

Note: Entities are grouped into entity sets. For example, the entity in HTML is in the HTML special entity set.

Name

Select a check box in this column to allow character conversion for the set of entities in the row.
Click a name to display, in the lower pane, the entities in that entity set.

Type

Default. This signifies that the entities are the standard entity mappings from W3C.
Custom. This signifies that the entity set has been changed.

Entity Mappings

The lower pane displays the entities in an entity set, along with their character and Unicode equivalents. It also lets you add, remove and edit these character entities.

To prevent a character entity from being converted, clear the associated check box.

If you add or edit an entity, the corresponding entity set is flagged as being default rather than custom.

Box	Description
Add	Click to add an entity to the set. The Add Entity Mapping dialog box is displayed.
Edit	Select an entity name and click this to edit the entity mapping. The Edit Entity Mapping dialog box is displayed.
Remove	Select an entity name and click this to remove the entity from the entity set.
Reset	Click to reset all the entities in this entity set to their default settings.