Subject: [xsl] Translating character entities for plain text output From: "Bradford, Denis" <denisb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:17:50 -0400 |
I've found a lot of discussion in the archives about solving character entity problems for HTML output, but not much on plain text: Generating plain text from docbook via XSLT, I need to output a space for and -- for —. I can get some funny glyphs (like  for ) and various literal codes, but not the result I want. I could postprocess the output, but I'd love to fix the style sheet. The XML document is encoded in utf-8 and resolves these characters through the standard docbook entity files. Specifically, <!ENTITY nbsp " "> and <!ENTITY mdash " & #x2014;">. In the stylesheet, I've tried defining the entity in a local subset, also html and text methods and various encodings in the xsl:output. The following almost works: <xsl:template match="text()"> <xsl:if test="contains(.,' ')"> <xsl:value-of select="translate(., ' ', ' ')"/> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> Unfortunately, this seems to suppress another essential translation on the same context: <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '

', ' ')"/> I can do either, but not both. There must be a better way... Thanks, Denis XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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