Subject: [xsl] XSLT outputting to XHTML to display character entities? From: "Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:36:43 -0500 |
Hi all, Sorry if this is an FAQ, but I've looked and can't find info on it. I have some non-7-bit characters in my source XML document, e.g. Ø (O with slash). My XSL stylesheet is processing the text and outputting it to an HTML document. I had wanted to output to XHTML, thinking that was better than HTML. For this reason I used <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/> (I also tried encoding="ISO-8859-1".) The result was that the non-7-bit characters were output in raw form, not escaped, into the resulting (x)html. This makes sense for XML and is not unexpected. However when I tried to view the result in IE 6.0, the characters did not show up correctly. (They appeared as a box, or as A~, depending on whether I set encoding to UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1.) When I change method to "html", the special characters were escaped to Ø and were displayed correctly by the browser. My question, then, is: is IE failing to display XHTML correctly? Isn't it true that XHTML (being XML) is allowed to contain any Unicode data (except & and < of course unless escaped)? And if so shouldn't a browser be able to display it correctly? I know the browser doesn't lack the font for this character because it shows up right when represented as   in the html. For now, it's not a problem to me... I can just use method="html" and generate html. But what's the Right way to do this? Is there a way to generate XHTML using XSL and have special characters in the output serialized using &#...; character entities? Thanks, Lars XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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