Re: [xsl] amp symbols

[Chad Chelius <cchelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The vendor recommends a UTF-8 encoded file. So when I create an XML  
file (before any XSLT is applied) I get just square boxes where those  
math symbols and other items usually appear. I think this is why they  
require the use of an entity. Does that make more sense or am I still  
missing the point?

<chad/>

Chad Chelius
AGI Training
cchelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Jul 3, 2006, at 10:39 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

> Nothing there suggests the need for entities in the XSLT output.
> If you have an entity reference  & f o o b a r ; in the file and that
> entity is defined by a DTD to be __something__ then when your vendor
> processes the XMl file, the XML parser will (or should) report the  
> same
> thing whether the file has & f o o b a r ; or __something__  in it.
> An entity reference is indistinguishable from the direct use of the
> entity which it references.
>
> If the vendor tools require an ASCII encoded file taht's a different
> matter and can be addressed by
> <xsl:output encoding="US-ASCII"/>
>
> David