RE: [xsl] RE: displaying characters

[Andrew Curry <andrew.curry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very much thats kind of what i read before i just wondered if there
was a way around it, currently we put in a unique char and use perl (as we
use gnomes libxsl perl XML::LibXSL) but we were trying to get around that.
Without moving to an xml 1.1 parser then i guess this is the only real
option? Is it recommended to use xml 1.1 at this time?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 December 2004 11:44
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] RE: displaying characters



You can not access those characters in XML 1.0 so you can't generate
or reference them at all in an pure XSLT stylesheet

in the beginning xt had an extension (the nchar output method if I
recall correctly) which allowed a certain element markup in the result
tree to be linearised as control characters.

XML 1.1 does allow these characters to be referenced as numeric
character refetrences, so if you can find an XSLt system hooked on to an
XML 1.1 parser, that would probably work.

Or just output [[[char=1]] and post-process with sed or perl or
something.

I assume you are generating text output, if you are generating XML
output then you need to generate XML 1.1 not XML 1.0. (version="1.1" on
xsl:output, but I doubt that works on any XSLT 1.0 system.


David

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