Re: [xsl] multi-document question

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Maybe my terminology is off.

yes:-) That's why it's always good to give sample input/output.

&#x00E9;<

That's not an entity reference, its a (numeric) character reference (NCR)
(it's not just a terminoligy difference: they are expanded at
differenttimes)

An xslt system is allowed to output characters in any way that produce
the same input when parsed. Since &#x00E9; and an e-acute character
produce the same input to any XML parser either of these may be used.
An XML parser doesn't care.

Usually a system will use character data rather than NCR for any
characters that are in the encoding (which is all characters for utf-8)
but if it doesn't, it doesn't. 

> (hope this renders right in your email client!)
It did, which suggests that actually you posted a latin-1 e-acute which
presumably wasn't the output of your stylesheet, which was specifying
utf-8 output.

David

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