Re: [xsl] Unicode character decimal representation problem when copying the XML

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/10/2010 16:57, Pradnya Gawade wrote:
> Thanks David. That works for unicode characters but I also have data
> like 'subject's' in my xml and this change outputs such values as
> 'subject's'. So I guess now the problem is for ascii characters in
> data. Is it possible to preserve both?

well only by using something like lexev (see Martin's answer) because no 
normal xml parser is going to report whether the input had a ' or an 
' The whole point of the entities is that they are equivalent to 
the characters. The parser will similarly not report other differences 
in markup.

if you use xslt (or any xml based system) to copy

<foo
 a = 'b'
></foo>

then it may come out as

<foo a="b"/>

You are not supposed to care. If you -do- care then perhaps you should 
be processing the input as text using sed or perl or something rather 
than using an xml pipeline that is designed to not notice these 
syntactic differences.

David





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