On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 21:32, Björn Persson wrote: > Paul M. Bucalo wrote: > > > I believe the problem was the use > > one or more illegal character entries (like adding "&" to a title) and > > that was causing it to fail. I seem to recall that you need to precede > > each of these with an "\" to keep it from being interpreted, just like > > at a BASH console. > > In XML and HTML (and I would guess all sorts of SGML), ampersand starts > an entity reference (which ends with a semicolon). If you want a literal > ampersand you must write it as "&", that is, an entity reference > that references the ampersand entity. Likewise, if you want a less-than > sign you can't write just "<", because that starts a tag, so you write > it as "<". Björn, The problem came about because I assumed that whatever was located within the quotes following a tag was considered literal output (a menu title) instead of interpreted. It never occurred to me that I had to markup special characters within the quotes. My bad. I should have remembered "&" was necessary, too, once I realized the mistake. XML is similar enough to HTML that it should have registered. A double "my bad". At least I have my XFce desktop menu shaping up the way I want it. Thanks for your help. Paul
