Re: [xsl] character map "range" in XSLT

["steve.majewski@xxxxxxxxx" <steve.majewski@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 12, 2010, at 1:49 PM, David wrote:

> I'm writing a XSLT that has to translate XML to plain ascii text.   
> The XML contains unicode characters, possibly any of them.  I cannot  
> control the authoring so I must handle whatever is thrown at me.
>
> I have a few dozen specially know character translations for things  
> like 1/4 and degrees unicode symbols.
> But I have a need to "catch all" charactors that are not mapped  
> explicitly (rather then map explicitly the entiure unicode set) and  
> translate them into something like "<UNKNOWN CHARACTER>"
>
> Any suggestions on how to do this ? I could trivially write a post- 
> processor to do this (maybe a dozen lines of C or java) but if  
> there's a feature directly in XSLT I'd love to try that.
>
> Any ideas welcome !

If you choose to do post-processing, no need to write a program: you  
can use 'iconv' .

-- Steve Majewski