Entities Rules

This section defines named entities that must be converted to their numeric equivalent in the MAML topic files.

The .NET XML parser only recognizes the common ASCII named entities (&, <, >, ", and '). Once converted to MAML, the topics are processed as XML files and, as such, any other named entities in the topic will cause the build process to fail. This section defines all other named entities commonly found in HTML files and their replacement numeric equivalent. During conversion, any named entities from this section found in a topic are replaced with their numeric form (i.e. © would become ©).

The entries consist of Entity elements with a name attribute that defines the named entity and a value attribute that defines the numeric value to use as its replacement.

<Entities>
  <Entity name="Aacute" value="193" />
  <Entity name="aacute" value="225" />
  <Entity name="Acirc" value="194" />
  <Entity name="acirc" value="226" />
</Entities>

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