Subject: Re: [xsl] foreign characters in params passed to stylesheet From: Mulberry Technologies List Owner <xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:03:44 -0400 |
>From: "Mattias Konradsson" <preacher@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: [xsl] foreign characters in params passed to stylesheet >Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 22:42:32 +0200 > > >> An XSLT processor is at liberty to use character references for any >> character in the output file, rather than using the native character. >> There's nothing in the spec that prevents this, and any XML parser (or >HTML >> user agent) will treat the character reference and the native character > > identically. The only difference is when you want to edit the file, in which >> case it's annoying to have the character reference for characters that you >> can display correctly on your screen, and it's annoying to have the native >> character for those that you can't. Unfortunately the XSLT processor knows >> nothing about your text editor or installed fonts, so it has to make a >> guess. Saxon includes extensions that give you a choice. >> >> Michael Kay >> Software AG >> home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Yah, entities isn't much of a problem when it's text that's outputet, the >real problem we're having is >entities being put into element attributes which really wreaks havoc with >your documents, Saxon it is :) > >best regards >--- >Mattias Konradsson -- ====================================================================== B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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