Re: Encodings

Subject: Re: Encodings
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:59:55 -0600 (MDT)
George Prezerakos (ETG) wrote:
> I have XML and XSL files that contain Greek characters encoded in iso-8859-7. If I define the output method as xml, is there a stylesheet processor that 
> produces output in iso-8859-7 ? 
> 
> All that I have found on the Internet up to know is processors that create output encoded in UTF-8 (I haven't tried the Oracle one though).

If you have an XML parser that will read iso-8859-7, you only need to
worry about converting the output from the XSLT processor. If this is the
case, I'd suggest using Free Recode to post-process the XML ... Something
like 'recode u8..l7 <in.xml >out.xml'. And then you also have to change
the XML declaration to <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-7"?>

A similar process could be used if you can't parse iso-8859-7 on the way
into the XSLT processor. Change the prolog to say utf-8 and run the
document through recode l7..u8.

Free Recode can be found at
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/recode/HTML/index.html

   - Mike
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