<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">See below.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 31, 2025, at 8:53 AM, David Haslam <<a href="mailto:dfhdfh@protonmail.com">dfhdfh@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hi DM,<br><br>Further to the feedback relating to the recent updates of the <b>FreGeneve1669</b> module...<br><br>Has anyone yet created an issue in JIRA for the failure of <b>libsword</b> to output the <b>&</b> character wherever a module contains the XML entity <span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;">&</span> ?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I didn’t see any when I surveyed the Jira issues. I noticed that &c. is quite common in the KJV margin notes, and front matter.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br>Which other XML entities have the same issue?<br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><ul data-editing-info="{"orderedStyleType":1,"unorderedStyleType":1}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li style="list-style-type: disc;">Likely candidates include <span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;"><</span> and <span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;">></span><br></li><li style="list-style-type: disc;">There may be others such as <span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;">'</span> and <span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;">"</span><br></li></ul></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes these are other possible problems.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><span style="line-height: normal;">Does the issue also pertain to their <b>numerical</b> equivalents, </span><span style="line-height: normal;">whether in <b>decimal</b> or <b>hexadecimal</b> form? e.g. </span><span style="line-height: normal;">&x#0027;</span><span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;"><br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>We have a Jira issue to convert these to their unicode equivalent. I’m almost done with that code, having started yesterday.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><span style="line-height: normal;">Any remedy should also take account that some such entities are also valid when the name is <b>uppercase</b>, e.g. </span><span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; line-height: normal;">&</span><span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;"><br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The remedy is that xmllint will complain as it is not valid in xml. This should be a friend of all OSIS module makers.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, osis2mod will properly convert it to &AMP; And it will output a diagnostic for the conversion.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;"><br></span></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><span style="line-height: normal;">Further reading: </span><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references"><span style="line-height: normal;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references</span></a></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user">Best regards,<br><br>David</div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton">Sent with <a href="https://pr.tn/ref/SWXT9A5YZ67G" target="_blank">Proton Mail</a> secure email.</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>sword-devel mailing list: <a href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org">sword-devel@crosswire.org</a><br><a href="http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel">http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel</a><br>Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page</blockquote></div></body></html>