Re: [xsl] Problem with XT and encoding?

[Janning Vygen <vygen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 17:17 schrieb Mark Kennedy:
> Hello, all:
>
> I'm having a problem with transformations using XT when using characters
> that are outside of the standard ASCII 127, and I can't figure out why. In
> the following examples, the » is character 187 in ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1).
> That character (and seemingly any character greater than the standard 127)
> gets turned into two characters, i.e. the » gets turned into »
>
> I imagine this is some simple encoding issue, but I'm flummoxed. The only
> other XSLT engine that I have available for testing is the MSXML in IE5,
> and I don't get this result with it, though I don't really think that means
> much.
>
> I'm running the Win32 binary of XT on and NT machine.

i tried almost any parsers and finally found Saxon which deals perfectly with 
encoding and all other problems i encountered with different parsers. just 
put an xsl:output tag in your stylesheet

<xsl:output method="html"
           encoding="ISO-8859-1"
            indent="no"/>

janning

> Any suggestions are appreciated!
>
> Input XML File:
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
>  <test>»</test>
>
> XSLT File:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
>
>  <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:copy-of select="test"/>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Resulting XML File:
> <test>»</test>
>
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>
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