RE: Encoding problem

[sara.mitchell@xxxxxxxxx]

Well, I can at least supply some of the reasons why the Unicode character is

showing -- as I got caught by this myself. The reason is your line ending between

the <xsl:attribute> and </xsl:attribute> tags.

 

I don't remember the section in the standard, but simply put ANYTHING between

the start/end tags to create an attribute is interpreted as part of the value. So the

XSL processor is adding a Unicode character for the line feed.

 

To fix this (in the cases where the attribute value template doesn't work -- the curly braces),

just make sure you don't add any extra white space. For example:

 

<xsl:attritbue name="value"><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></xsl:attribute>

 

If you editor wraps it strangely, don't worry about it. It will still work correctly.

 

Sara

-----Original Message-----
From: David Halsted [mailto:halstedd@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 2:57 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: SAXON XSL Discussion List
Subject: Encoding problem

If I do

    <xsl:element name="input">
     <xsl:attribute name="name">name</xsl:attribute>
     <xsl:attribute name="type">text</xsl:attribute>

     <xsl:attribute name="value">
      <xsl:value-of select="@name"  />
     </xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:element>

 

and @name contains a numeric Unicode entity, Saxon chokes.  On the other hand, if I do

 

    <input name="name" type="text" value="{@name}"/>

 

it works fine.  Thanks to Steve Tinney for the hint.  Mind you, I don't understand why this is so, but I'm content.

 

Dave Halsted