RE: [xsl] encoding shift_jis into an attribute

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matthew,

At 05:24 PM 6/3/2004, you wrote:
> I'm really only worried about one processing architecture, but I'm
> curious, what about the code I wrote isn't portable?  I can see that
> building up tags as text is messy and error-prone, but I can't find any
> other way to achieve the same effect.

It's in the FAQ and the archives, but bears repeating. The 
'disable-output-escaping' feature is optional: processors don't have to 
implement it. More to the point, what it really is is an instruction to the 
serializer that picks up the result tree and writes it out to a file (in 
XML syntax or whatever): there are architectures, such as Mozilla's 
client-side transformations or most XSL-FO pipelines, where no such file is 
written, but instead the result tree is just passed directly to some 
process to do something with it (such as format and display it). Naturally 
the "tag-writing" technique isn't going to work there, and 
disable-output-escaping won't have any effect.

> You asked about setting the output encoding to "ascii".  This doesn't
> seem to make any difference.

That's too bad. In general, finding an output method (like "ascii" or 
"US-ASCII" or whatever your processor supports) that doesn't include 
upper-ASCII characters is a good way to compel the serializer to escape all 
non-ASCII characters as Unicode character references.

Cheers,
Wendell


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