Re: [xsl] Symbol handling in XSLT

[Alex <alexscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your reply...

There is an actual '?' in the html source, so It would appear that the 
XSLT has transformed some other character from the XML to make question 
marks.

We can contact the provider of the XML to ask them what character they 
entered, I just thought that somebody on this list might have seen this 
problem, or something similar to it, before. And that there might be a 
piece of code which will use the same HTML encoding as seemed to work on 
the none XSLT page.

Alex.

Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> > Oner of our XSLT pages has been outputing a question mark 
> > where a bullet 
> > would have been expected.
>
>
> Are you sure it really is a QUESTION MARK, or is it a bullet character and the program you use to view the document either uses the wrong encoding, e.g. UTF-8 vs. ISO-8859-1, or could it be that the font you use doesn't have a glyph for the bullet character and displays it as a question mark.
>  
>
> > I say a bullet would have been expected because we have another page 
> > which was showing the bullet snd not the question mark, and that page 
> > doesn't use XSLT for the transformation.
> >
> > As it is dificult to determine which characters might get 
> > input in the 
> > XML is there a way of handling symbols at least as accurately as the 
> > straight HTML page?
>
>
> I don't understand the question. Does accuracy mean using entitiy references? If determing which characters you have in your input XML documents, you should probably get an editor/viewer that loads the document using the correct character encoding and also can display non-ASCII characters correctly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jarno - Delerium: Koran