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Alpha5 Started conversation Oct 16, 2002
Ion, like it. Maybe you can give a hand, Im having a problem with guide ML. I cant seem to use apostrephes and speech marks, when you put them into an entry, it goes nuts,you seem to be an expert in this sort of thing, can you give me help?
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Ion the Naysayer Posted Oct 16, 2002
Quotation marks need to be replaced with something that won't make the parser choke in XML ("escaped") - that includes GuideML.
" is represented by "
Apostrophes should be okay but just in case:
' is represented by '
So you would put something like:
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet wonders to himself "To be, or not to be? That is the question."
Heh... I'm not really an expert, just well informed. You're making me .
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Ion the Naysayer Posted Oct 16, 2002
Looks interesting!
You may want to librally sprinkle some s around to break up the text a bit more.
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Alpha5 Posted Oct 16, 2002
Thanks again, it works. Ive got some other entries, going through peer review is A849512. There are others, come to my personal space if you can find it.
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Ion the Naysayer Posted Oct 16, 2002
I took a look over some of them and gave a few suggestions on your pencil cases entry. I'll try to visit the rest. I'm perpetually busy, it seems.
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