Re: [xsl] Seeking a valid mdash

Could be Redmond.

Very strange: The test file below is on my local file system.
>From http://validator.w3.org/, opening and validating the file
with IE 6.0.2800.1106, draws the "Sorry,... us-ascii...".

Same file, opened and validated through Mozilla 1.4
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624]
returns:

   This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!

What a pain.


I would still like to know any thought towards my second question:

2. What instructions/code can I put into a source xml document that
will produce the ascii string "&#8212;" in my xml/xhtml output document,
after Xalan xslt processing?


Thanks again to everyone.

William BC Crandall
Post Office Box 187
Lagunitas, CA 94938
bc.crandall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx




>
> Just saw that my mailer dropped the mdash characters I want to show.
> They appear in my text editor as â\200\224, or, in hex mode, e2 80 94.
> When pasted in here as â?", or the ? replaced by an empty rectangular
> box:  â€”
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William BC Crandall" <bc.crandall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "William BC Crandall" <bc.crandall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 18 July 2003 5:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Seeking a valid mdash
>
>
> >
> > Thanks to René, who caught the typo (did not change the result),
> > and to Jarno, for suggesting a test in Firebird (Page Info says:
> > "Encoding: UTF-8"), and David who questioned the validator.
> >
> > I now have more clarity, but still the same problem.
> >
> >
> > The W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/), takes in this test file:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
> >
> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
> >   <head>
> >     <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
/>
> >     <meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />
> >     <title>[Test validate: mdash]</title>
> >   </head>
> >   <body>
> >     <p>
> >       There is an mdash here:
> >     </p>
> >     <p>
> >       Here is another: &#8212;
> >     </p>
> >   </body>
> > </html>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > and reports:
> >
> >    "Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 13 it
> >    contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as us-ascii (in
> >    other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified
> >    Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and
> >    the character encoding indication."
> >
> >
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1. Why does the validator see this file as us-ascii encoded?
> >
> > 2. What instructions/code can I put into a source xml document that
> > will produce the ascii string "&#8212;" in my xml/xhtml output document?
> >
> > Thanks again for any thoughts.
> >
> > William BC Crandall
> > Post Office Box 187
> > Lagunitas, CA 94938
> > bc.crandall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
>
>
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