RE: [xsl] Generating numeric character references

["Andrew Welch" <AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
> 
> This won't work.
> 
> If you took the results of this transform and gave them to SAX
> ContentHandler you'd get a 'characters' call with the string
> "­", not with the single character represented by U+00AD.
> 
> Also, if you re-serialised the result, you end up back where
> you started: & a m p ; # 1 7 3 ;
> 
> Dan.

ooops, engage brain.  Of course you will need use d-o-e on the text nodes to ensure your newly form ­ text string isn't serialized back out to ­... (which is what wendell was saying in the first place)

cheers
andrew

 

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