Subtitles talk:sbemail197/en

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If anyone is curious, the Greasemonkey script has this to say about using an emdash:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Line Number 58, Column 83:
  <line start="900" end="927" speaker="strongbad">Thirty whole minutes! Can you be&mdash;</line>

Turns out, such well-known entites are defined by HTML, but are meaningless in just XML. Though XML does support entities, it just doesn't define any, and therefore can't parse this. I guess those are defined in the DTD?

Additionally, if one just pastes an actual — character in there, it gets translated back to an HTML entity (presumably by the wiki).

The character code (—) doesn't work either, with somewhat surprising results.

Anyway, don't really know any solution, just though I'd share the fruitless results of my trying to make sense of it.  Green Helmet 03:41, 22 July 2008 (UTC)