Re: [xsl] Character encoding/representation from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

["Bridger Dyson-Smith bdysonsmith@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eliot

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The characters are not just the ASCII bytes.
>
> I think you will need to match on the characters in question and replace
> them with the desired character, e.g.:
>
> <xsl:template match="text()[contains(., 'C"b,b"')]">
> <xsl:value-of select="replace(., 'C"b,b"', 'b')"/>
> <xsl:template/>
>
> And then use a more complete identity transform that handles the text
> nodes:
>
> Thank you for the response. I'm afraid I'm guilty of providing an
incomplete picture of my issue: I'm not sure what malformed(?) characters
are in the input documents. My apologies for leaving that detail out, but
seems like it would present a fairly significant problem for doing a
replace().


> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
>
> Again, thank for your time and trouble.
Bridger

>
> --
> Eliot Kimber
> http://contrext.com
>
>
>
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