Re: [xsl] Entities Conversion

[Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 26 2007 23:39:12 +0100, Abel Braaksma wrote:
> J. S. Rawat wrote:
...
>> DESIRED OUTPUT
>> “ ” – —
>
> there's a way to get this in XSLT 2.0 using character-sets, but it is
> usually not the way to go as you will invalidate your xml.

...unless your output includes (or is included as an external general
parsed entity in a document that includes) the DOCTYPE declaration for
a DTD that defines those entities.

It's generally not necessary to turn the characters back into entity
references since your XML parser will turn them back into characters
again anyway when you come to parse your XML.

About the only use that I can see for turning the characters back into
entities is if you both need to eyeball the XML and it would make more
sense to you if you saw named entity references rather than numeric
references.

If you want to, your stylesheet can import a set of XSLT 2.0 character
maps for the ISO entity sets that can be downloaded from
http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879doc/overview.html.

While DTDs sometimes map multiple different ISO entities to
the same numeric entity reference, these character maps can only
convert a character back to a single entity reference.  If you use
these character maps, you might particularly look at the mappings to
'rsquor' and 'rdquor' in the ISOpub mapping since you may want 'rsquo'
and 'rdquo' instead.

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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