Hi Scott,
At 03:57 PM 1/28/2004, you wrote:
in my final output I need to physically see <td> :</td>. Currently my
output contains <td>{a single space}</td>. The reason being my OBJECT
element is transformed to <td> and the original space needs to be held
within the outputed <td> </td>. If you open my current output in IE
you will see the famous A where my output contains <td> </td>
By "the famous A" I take it you mean two characters, the A-with-circumflex
(a little "hat" on top) followed by a space: "Â " (I paste it in hopes
it'll come through).
In fact, this is what Internet Explorer shows when it's looking at a UTF-8
non-breaking space, but it doesn't know the file is in UTF-8, instead
construing it in an older encoding (iso-8859-1 or some such).
In other words, you are in fact getting the correct character, only IE is
not showing it to you.
Adding an encoding declaration to your output -- perhaps even assuring it's
"safe" for IE by using <xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-1"/> (assuming your
processor will do that: most will) and thereby writing in a character set
that IE can handle, will fix this.
If you really want to post-process your file, or force your
post-transformation serializer, to substitute the non-breaking space
character with an entity reference (or rather, with a string that will
function as such in the serialized output), that can be done. See for
example http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/02/xmlchar.html. Doing this in
XSLT, however, isn't recommended for those who haven't fully grasped the
downside of the optional d-o-e feature.
It's far better, and usually much easier, to set up things so that your
browser recognizes what character encoding your document is actually in,
instead of just guessing wrong.
I might give more details on how to do this, only the whole thing makes my
head hurt, and I know there are others on this list who could do a better
job of it. But this is the oldest FAQ in the book.
Cheers,
Wendell
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