Re: [xsl] Nordic Characters in variables

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/01/2012 10:07, trond.huso@xxxxxx wrote:
> Sorry about this:
> What I am doing is this:
> <xsl:variable name="filename">
>              <xsl:value-of select="//filename"/>
>          </xsl:variable>
That's a long-winded and expensive way of doing

<xsl:variable name="filename" select="//filename"/>
> Where the //filename points to:
> <filename>RES_FF_20110924_084810</filename>
>
> Error I am getting is:
> 2012-01-16 09:55:57: An Exception has occured: 'file:///j:/NTB-Normalizer/xml/Travresultater/RES_X_20101015_095157.xml' is not a valid windows path or URI. at xsl:variable
> J:\NTB-Normalizer\xslt\Travdata\Travdata.xsl
I suspect you are getting the error when you use the variable, not when 
you declare it. I imagine you are using the variable as an argument to 
the doc() or document() function. The argument to this is expected to be 
a valid URI, and non-ASCII characters are not valid in URIs: try calling 
encode-for-uri() first:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-encode-for-uri

(The spec allows implementations of doc() to be liberal in what they 
accept, but it doesn't require it.)

Michael Kay
Saxonica
> Line 13, Character 10
>
> 2012-01-16 09:55:57:    at Altova.AltovaXML.XSLT2Class.ExecuteAndGetResultAsString()
>     at NTBNormalizer.NTBConverter.XSLAltovaConverter(String fileXSL, FileInfo fileXML, ArrayList dirOutput, ArrayList arrFileEncoding, String strOutputDocType) in C:\Visual Studio Projects\Visual Studio 2008\NTBNormalizer\NTBNormalizer\Converter.cs:line 290
> 2012-01-16 09:55:57: Moving file to J:\NTB-Normalizer\error
>
> It does not create this error when I am parsing/converting files that does not have Nordic characters.
>
> As said in the initial mail: I can do this quick'n dirty by creating my own filename, but I kind of does not want to do that as I (or someone else) might have to get in touch with the originator of the file and therefor it is a good thing to tell them which file we have problems with.
>
>
> Trond Husx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16. januar 2012 10:46
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Nordic Characters in variables
>
> On 16/01/2012 09:08, trond.huso@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am getting an error when transforming a file where I am storing a filenam= e in a variable. The filename sometimes contains letters that are quite com= mon in Nordic names (&aelig; and so on).
> > One solution is that I create new filenames, but I don't really want to do = that - yet). So I am wondering: How do I work around this issue?
> Standard answer to this kind of question: there's no point telling us you're getting an error without telling us what the error is.
>
> You need to say exactly what you did and exactly how it failed.
>
> If the issue concerns non-ASCII filenames then it may also be dependent on your operating system.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica