Subject: Re: [xsl] TrAX XSLT emits &entities for iso-8859-8 characters From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:15:23 +0100 |
Hi Eli, > When my TrAX XSLT generates HTML, XSLT emits Hebrew letters as > &#entities. This makes the HTML illegible, and a nuisance to debug. > How can I tell TrAX to emit simple Hebrew characters? If there's no > way, how can I tell my customer that her Web designers will hate the > tool I've recommended to her? :- ( You may be able to find something in the TrAX API that gives you control over when character entity references are used, though I can't immediately find anything with a scan through the documentation. The XSLT processor that you use may give you a bit more control than the TrAX API, either through its particular API or within the stylesheet. For example, Saxon has a saxon:character-representation attribute on xsl:output that gives you control, so you could do something like: <xsl:output method="html" saxon:character-representation="native;hex" encoding="ISO-8859-8" /> (It might be that Saxon doesn't support that encoding, in which case you should probably use UTF-8, as long as the editors that you're using support it.) The above xsl:output element tells Saxon to serialise characters that can be represented in the ISO-8859-8 encoding natively, and those that can't as hexadecimal character references. If the processor you're using doesn't give you that kind of control, you could try setting the output method to XML (XHTML) rather than HTML; that way you get around the HTML serialisation outputting characters as character entity references, as long as you use (and the processor supports) an encoding in which the characters can be represented. You do then have to worry a bit more about the way in which the result of the stylesheet is serialised, because the HTML output method does a few very helpful things for you, but usually this isn't a problem. I guess the final solution would be to write your own serialiser, or a post-processor to work on the output, but you shouldn't have to go that far, I think. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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