EntityToken

Hi Martin,

The EntityToken defines HTML entities, things like "&" or ">".

The documentation has a lot of information on the language definitions but another good way to learn them is to look at our sample ones. Pattern groups are either a single pattern or set of patterns that define a token. Tokens can be things like keywords so a pattern group for a keyword token in C# would have patterns like "void", "for", "while", etc.

First, Thanks for answering so fast, now...

Looking at the PatternValue of the EntityToken the last part is ";?" which means 1 or none ";" character. Is not all html entities ended with a ;?

Edit: One more thing so you maybe see that I'm looking at something the wrong way. This:
<RegexPatternGroup Type="EndScope" Token="StartTagEndToken" Style="TagDelimiterStyle" PatternValue="/? >" />
supposed to add /> into the StartTagEndToken, but is not all endtags in html end with a /> ?? here the "/" character seems to be optional? What am I seeing the wrong wat?

I may have alot of questions now when I'm new, is it okey to ask them all here or is there some chat or something that you can direct me to? Ofcourse I won't ask about every little thing I get stuck on without thinking and trying to figure it out but still ;P

[ 12-05-2004: Message edited by: Martin Lundberg ]

[ 12-05-2004: Message edited by: Martin Lundberg ]

Yes you are right... the ; is required for HTML entities to be recognized by browsers.

The pattern is saying that if we are in a start tag state (which could be a start tag block tag or a single tag like <img /> ), that state ends with either a ">" or a "/>".

You can post questions here. That way our other customers can read them.

Yeah! that makes sence <IMG SRC="wink.gif" border="0"> Thanks!

I am starting to understand it now. First you split it by using scopes and then you split the scopes by using PatternGroups.