Re: [xsl] •

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

Greg Martel wrote:
> But I think I do if I want to make it so that this entity, and quite a 
> few other numeric entities, survive the transform to html for later 
> posting. Otherwise I get "*" in my html code rather than "&8226;" which 
> displays like this "⤢".

There is no such thing as a "numeric entity". If you declare
an entity, the entity name must be a valid XML name, i.e.
starting with a letter (roughly). This:
  •
is a character reference, not an entity reference. It is hardwired
in the XML parser as an alternative representation of the Unicode
character U+2024 (ONE DOT LEADER). You can not and you need not
declare an entity #8228 or 8228.
I do not understand what you mean by "survive the transform to html
for later posting". If this meahs you want to have a one dot leader
in the HTML, simply write ․ in your XML. It will be converted
into the one dot leader in the output. You seem to expect the output
should contain ․ at this place, but it does not. The most
probably cause is that you use UTF-8 encoding for the output, and
the XSLT processor writes the character in this encoding to the
output stream. You appear to view the output with a tool which is
not aware that it is UTF-8 encoded. You can try to enforce another
encding, for example use something like:
 <xsl:output method="html" encoding="encoding="iso-8859-1">


J.Pietschmann


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