Subject: Re: [xsl] Passing through character entities intact From: Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 11 Oct 2001 07:45:45 +0100 |
>>>>> "Angus" == McCollum , Angus <AMcCollum@xxxxxxxx> writes: Angus> I would like pass the entity through so I can use a Angus> non-encodable character(mdash) in the final output. What Angus> happens in Xalan, is that when it finds a '&' character Angus> code it substitues the '&' reference. This does not Angus> work for non-standard, but common references such as Angus> mdash. As a result setting the output encoding to Angus> ISO_8859-1, which is the most compatable for the web, will Angus> cause an XSLT processor to throw and error or input a Angus> character like '?' instead of the entity reference. This is impossible to achieve - mdash is not supported by ISO 8859-1. Output as UTF-8 - most web browsers support that now. Alternatively, in the internal subset of the input document, define mdash as a hyphen: e.g. here's how I do it in docbook, when I intend ISO 8859-1 output for HTML: <!ENTITY mdash "‐"> -- Colin Paul Adams Preston Lancashire XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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