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RE: Special characters turn out as garbage in xslt->html conversi on
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- Subject: RE: Special characters turn out as garbage in xslt->html conversi on
- From: Guğmundur Erlingsson <txakolin at bok dot hi dot is>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:37:06 -0000
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Hi and thanks for the reply,
>
> The "garbage" is actually the hex representation of the UTF-8
> encoding of
> the relevant characters.
>
Yeah, I figured it would be meaningful garbage:-)
> Don't worry about the HTML, so long as it works in your browser!
>
Well, that's the problem, right? It doesn't work. That is, when the href is
"#%C3%81" and there isn't a matching name-tag, it's a dead link. So, would
there be a solution to get around this? Admittedly, I'm not all that
knowledgeable about unicode and its effects, but I have a feeling that will
have to change soon:-)
Guğmundur
> I think the <a name=""> attribute should also be escaped this way even
> though its value is not a URI, this is a minor omission from
> the XSLT spec.
>
>
> Mike Kay
>
>
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