Re: [xsl] Passing through character entities intact

Subject: Re: [xsl] Passing through character entities intact
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:29:00 +0100
> I would like pass the entity through so I can use a non-encodable
> character(mdash) in the final output. What happens in Xalan, is that when it
> finds a '&' character code it substitues the '&amp;' reference. This does
> not work for non-standard, but common references such as mdash. As a result
> setting the output encoding to ISO_8859-1, which is the most compatable for
> the web, will cause an XSLT processor to throw and error or input a
> character like '?' instead of the entity reference.

If you output a character that is not in th especified output encoding
then the system should use a nu,eric character reference, or, for the
html output method it might use html enity names.

It's hard to tell from your description, but either you are doing
something wrong or there is a bug in the system. There is no way an
input of &mdash; should ever produce &amp; (assuming a dtd defining
mdash to be an appropriate character is used).

David

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