[solved by all who replied] xhtml - can't insert ©

**brown monkey** · Sep 20th, 2004, 11:36 PM

how do i do inserting copyright symbol?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""
"" >
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body>
&copy; Copyleft 2004. Brown Monkey. All rights are not reserved.
</body>
</html>

gives an error

Code:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity 
Location: file:///D:/My%20Documents/My%20Project/HTML/TEMP/document1.xhtml
Line Number 5, Column 1:

&copy; Copyleft 2004. Brown Monkey. All rights are not reserved. 
^

**mendhak** · Sep 21st, 2004, 02:05 AM

&copy;

?

**mendhak** · Sep 21st, 2004, 02:07 AM

Or why don't you do it directly, ©

**Acidic** · Sep 21st, 2004, 03:35 AM

I inserted the infinity symbol like that not long ago. I didn't get any errors though. I'd guess that you need that inside a <p> or some other tag like that,

**Jop** · Sep 21st, 2004, 05:22 AM

The XML parser you use to check your xhtml doesn't understand that entity, as it says. So for html the correct way to insert a copyright symbol is indeed © but for compliance with your XML parser you might want to insert the hexidecimal value for the symbol.

Also you should always define a doctype:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<title>Copyright test</title>
</head>

<body>
        &#169; Copyleft 2004. Brown Monkey. All rights are not reserved.
</body>
</html>

edit: the board parses it, so it should be

Code:

& # 1 6 9;

Without any spaces.

**CornedBee** · Sep 21st, 2004, 10:12 AM

Actually, the real problem was (depending on the XML parser you were using) that you were omitting the DTD ID and location. The entity & copy; is defined in the DTD. Without that, it doesn't exist, thus the parser error.

**brown monkey** · Sep 21st, 2004, 08:43 PM

i'm dumb. cornedbee is right and all you guys are right. i'm the only one who is doing the wrong thing. hehehe. thanks to all of you who makes me feel happy with all the blah blah.... hehehe. thanks again. it's defined in the dtd, so without it © doesn't exist... right. thank you all especially to my dear mendhak.

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