Indeed. I should have known better. Temporary attack of brain weakness, I suppose. For those who want to see for themselves, the minimal example below will do. dr. Hans van der Meer % test character entity. \startxmlsetups demo:entity \xmlsetsetup{#1}{root}{demo:entity:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{demo:entity} \startxmlsetups demo:entity:root \blank Start test:\crlf flushing: \xmlflush{#1}\crlf End test\blank \stopxmlsetups \startbuffer[demo] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root>amp = & and #38 = &</root> \stopbuffer \starttext \currentdate-\currenttime\quad\ConTeXt-version=\contextversion\blank {\bf Testing use of character entities}\blank These should produce the same result: \type{&} and \type{&} and indeed they do.\blank \xmlprocessbuffer{demo}{demo}{}\blank \stoptext

On 19 Apr 2018, at 14:44, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 4/19/2018 10:53 AM, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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The following use of character entities & aborts in ConTeXt. That is of course because the # is seen as a parameter. Changing this to &\#xxx; or &\letterhash xxx; typesets & as is, but that is not the intention, because an ampersand should appear. So, how do I proceed here? Minimal example: % test character entity failure. \startxmlsetups demo:entity \xmlsetsetup{#1}{root}{demo:entity:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{demo:entity} \startxmlsetups demo:entity:root \blank Start test:\crlf root: <amp> = "&"\crlf root: <number> = "&\letterhash 038;”\crlf % &\#038; produces the same End test\blank \stopxmlsetups

you are tex mode there so & == &

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\startbuffer[demo] <root></root> \stopbuffer \starttext \currentdate-\currenttime\quad\ConTeXt-version=\contextversion\blank {\bf Testing use of character entities}\blank These should produce the same result: \type{&} and \type{&}\blank \xmlprocessbuffer{demo}{demo}{}\blank \stoptext dr. Hans van der Meer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

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