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Unit 7: Managing Outputs

The following table illustrates the seven named character entities that are particularly important Notes
in the processing of WML
Entity Notation Explanation
quot " quotation mark
amp & ampersand
apos ' apostrophe
lt < less than
gt > greater than
nbsp non-breaking space
shy ­ soft hyphen (discretionary hyphen)

Notes The semicolon (;) is part of the escape sequence for a special character.
To include a special character, simply use the escaped notation described in the table above. For
example, the following code includes a less than character (<) in the escaped form <.
<wml><card id=”Card_1"><p>Numerically 5 < 10</p></card></wml>

This would generate the following screen display:

Self Assessment Questions

Fill in the blanks:
11. All …………………… character entities are referenced with respect to the document
character set (Unicode) and not to the current document encoding (charset).

12. To include a special character, simply use the ………………….. notation.

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