Re: [xsl] xml:space preserve on element converted to html textarea encoding issue

[Karl Stubsjoen <kstubs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed a non-breaking space, my technique for writing out the textarea is
this:

<xsl:value-of select="concat(., '&#160;')"/>

Introducing the non-breaking space and guaranteeing that the textarea
is written out as a non-collapsed element.  Perhaps the better thing
to do is to shove the tags into the result from a CDATA section above
and below my value-of and drop the non-breaking space altogether.

I'll give that a try now.

Karl..

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 07:32, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
>>
>> I am converting an element with xml:space preserve to an HTML
>> textarea.  I am getting a bad character code, an A with a little tilde
>> hat (sort of) as the first character in the textarea.
>
> A spurious capital A followed by a diacritic means that your content is in
> UTF-8, but it's being displayed by software that doesn't realise it is in
> UTF-8 (it probably thinks it is in Latin-1). If the display software is a
> web browser, this means there's something wrong with the magic incantations
> in the HTML Content-Type, the HTTP headers, the web server configuration
> files, or some combination of the above.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>



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