Hi Mike - it is because the contents of the rich text area is loaded as an XML document by the helper method - so it can be parsed as XML.

My suggestion would be to replace those entities with their numeric equivalents.

Which version of PDF creator are you using - and do you output your FO with Razor or XSLT?

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Hi Darren,

I'm using version 1, the FO output is done with XSLT. Is it possible to replace the entities with their numeric equivalents in the XSLT or does this need to be done by TinyMCE? If so how can this be done?

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Hi Mike, You could look at using the Exslt string replace function before passing the value into the extension function.

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Hi Darren,

I've tried a number of things such as replacing the entities with their numeric equivalents but nothing seems to work, the minute I remove the < and > characters everything works OK. What exacrly does the RteToHtml method do, could I replace it with my own xslt extension which could replace the &lt; and &gt; entities?

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It just loads the HTML from the RTE as an XML document so you can parse it with XSL-FO.

&lt; &gt; are obviously undeclared entities.

Do you need to keep them, or can you just remove them altogether?

I need to keep the entities as there's lots of content with them. I even tried setting the TinyMCE to encode entities to numeric but found out that it does it for everything except for the standard entities &gt; &lt; and &nbsp;

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Hi Mike - let me have a play and figure out the solution - it may be that I need to make a bug fix, in which case you'd need to upgrade to PDF creator 2.0.

I'll let you know once I've had a look.

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Hi Mike - sorry i see the issue now - it is an issue with PDF creator.

I will be able to create a fix in the next few days but you'll need to upgrade to v 2.0 to get the fix.

It is quite a simple process to do so.

I'll keep you posted.

Thanks.

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