RE: [xsl] Transcode strings into Numeric Character References?

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If by "strange" you mean non-ASCII (an English perspective...) then try

<xsl:output encoding="us-ascii"/>

Note that generation of character references falls within the domain of the
serializer, not the transformer.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip B Oldham [mailto:phillip.oldham@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 05 September 2005 16:11
> To: Mailing List: XSL
> Subject: [xsl] Transcode strings into Numeric Character References?
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Just wondering what the quickest way is to transcode strings into
> numeric character references? I need to ensure that all "strange"
> characters (curly quote marks, etc) are encoded, and for some items I
> need to encode alphanumeric characters also. However, I'm using XPath
> 1.0, and don't fancy doing a heafty xsl choose statement to 
> loop through
> each element.
> 
> Any ideas?