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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The meta-interpreter does not properly encode “&”
character used in Enumeration attributes. I have an Enum attribute that has one
of the menu items as “&”. In the generated XMP this is emitted
literally, and when you try to load this paradigm GME chokes with XML parser
error. The culprit XMP line is listed below:</span></font></p>
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<enumitem dispname = "&" value = "&"></enumitem></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>BTW, is there a reason for attributes to be globally scoped
ever? Seems like I can’t use attribute defined in one sheet in another
sheet anyway –</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sandeep</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Sandeep Neema</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Research Scientist,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Institute</span></font> of Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University</p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Phone: 615-343-9996</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Email: <a href="mailto:sandeep.k.neema@vanderbilt.edu">sandeep.k.neema@vanderbilt.edu</a></span></font></p>
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