Re: Fw: Bug in SAXON (entity/character set ) ??

Subject: Re: Fw: Bug in SAXON (entity/character set ) ??
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:51:28 GMT

>  I am having trouble getting the character &#8226; to output corrrectly
> using
>  SAXON. Can any one provide a working example of how to do this.

what do you mean by "correct" most likely saxon output using UTF8
encoding, which is the default encoding for XML, in which case
this character would be output using multiple bytes, and would
look like

>  The SAXON transform produced  "gibberish" characters.

If you look at the file using a latin1 encoded editor or any other
encoding than utf8.


>   <!ENTITY bullet  "&#38;#8226;">
why the double escaping here?
It cold more easily have been written
  <!ENTITY bullet  "&#8226;">

David

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