Subject: Re: Using Entity References in XSL Templates From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:12:54 GMT |
> but not with MSXML MSXML does not support XSLT but rather different language. I see that MS are promising a `preview' release next wednesday of a parser supporting xpath and xslt. > coming through not as a non-breaking space, but as a  No you are only looking at _half_ the character, on a terminal using the wrong encoding. The default XML encoding is UTF-8 (and xt currently does not support changing that) in UTF-8 position 160 is encoded as two bytes. If you look at the file on a terminal using latin1 then you see the two bytes as two random characters, but a utf-8 terminal or a browser which understands utf-8 (which is most of the current versions of the main browsers) should do the right thing. This must be the most F of FAQ's on this list though:-) > Following your advice, I defined nbsp as follows: > > <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ > <!ENTITY nbsp "<xsl:text > disable-output-escaping='yes'>&nbsp;</xsl:text>"> > ]> > > This worked fine. but it will stop working as soon as you use XSL in an embedded system where the XML tree output from XSL is passed straight into another application without being re-parsed. If you output   you are outputting the single unicode character 160 (even if it is two bytes in utf-8) If you output &nbsp; then you are outputting the six characters `ampersand' n b s p ; _if_ your XSL engine decides to honour the disable-output-escaping (it does not have to) you will get the characters in your output but that will only be the no break space character if you re-parse your entire document. If you pass it straight into the dom of a browser, you'll see what you asked for, the 6 characters . this seems a high price to pay, just to get the character appearing as something you can read in a non-unicode aware terminal or editor. David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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