Re: [xsl] Escaping/converting special characters

["cutlass" <cutlass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

this is a classic FAQ

a rule of thumb is to avoid enclosing anything into CDATA as it ceases to be
accessable and used as xml.

i would suggest a bit of preprocessing that will convert the entities into
their numeric equivelents

try using html tidy at www.w3.org.

there are plenty of other methods.

FAQ on entities
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N3573.html


cheers, jim fuller

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Kendall" <rkendall@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "XSL-List" <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:45 AM
Subject: [xsl] Escaping/converting special characters


> This is not really an XSL question but is closely related, so I hope
someone
> is kind enough to answer.
>
> I have some news feeds that I am transforming to WML.  The feeds come in
in
> a flat text file, I wrote a quick and dirty Perl script to parse these
text
> files and convert them to XML (using XML::Simple), this then allows me to
> easily transform them to WML using XSLT.
>
> On some files I get special characters (eg '£') which cause parse errors
> when trying to transform my (not quite valid) XML.  What I need to know is
> how can easily convert these special characters to entities or escape them
> with CDATA tags in such a manner that I can transform them to valid WML.
Is
> it a stupid idea to put all the data in CDATA tags?  Otherwise, how will I
> know which characters are going to need escaping.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Ross Kendall
> Technical Developer
> Affinity Internet Holdings
> e: rkendall@xxxxxxxxx
> p: +44 (0)20 7670 1155
> w: http://www.aih.co.uk/
>
>
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