Subject: Re: [xsl] url encoding of ampersands From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:22:37 -0700 (MST) |
Sivan Mozes wrote: > Question: if the xslt processor was passed this character from the xml > parser, how is it selected for conversion as opposed to other characters, by > range? Yes. It is up to the processor implementation, actually. For compatibility with Netscape, they tend to emit entity references for characters 128-255 and numeric character references for 256 and higher. This is only when the output method is HTML. > Shouldn't there be a way to be more specific in HTML output mode in regards > to ampersand handling? (using xerces/xalan). The idea is to make it so you don't have to think about such things, and can always know that your output, be it XML or HTML, will always be well-formed (or HTML's equivalent of well-formed). That is why the disable-output-escaping on xsl:text and xsl:value-of is held in low regard; it was added to the spec at the last minute and makes it possible to force a processor to emit something that can't be read back in by a conforming XML parser or HTML user agent. > I eventually wrapped all my entities in CDATA so I can later on encode the > ampersands, and did another assignment pass w/ disable-output-escaping to > parse these entities for displaying link content. > > Although it works, I don't like the idea of introducing an exception into > the xml itself, which is being handled by non-techies. ...and of course, CDATA sections strip whatever is in them of any logical structure other than just being a run of character data. For example, &foo; in a CDATA section means the 5 characters & f o o ; rather than an entity reference to a general parsed entity named foo. You're saying you want them to be characters, not markup, so ideally you don't want your serializer to ever emit them in such a way that they would be misinterpreted as being markup. But of course, that *is* what you are asking for.. I'm just explaining why you don't have the level of control you want. > Only for specific elements CDATA needs to be used for entities while > everywhere else, entities are handled in a standard manner. I don't > think this can be specified in the DTD. That's correct. - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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