RE: [xsl] encoding and XSL Transformation

[Jarno dot Elovirta at nokia dot com]

Hi,

> I'm having some trouble using the Xalan 2 Java parser for 
> parsing some XML 
> files I have that include non-ASCII characters. In which I 
> have characters 
> like right-tik '  left-tik long dash, etc.  When I use Xalan UTF-8 
> encoding, it will make these characters into garbeled mess, 
> like  Â$(A  for right tick ,etc.

You are viewing the result document using editor/viewer that supports UTF-8, right? I can't stress this enough...

> The SAX2SAX.java example provided with Xalan doesn't do too much help 
> either. In which it seems like it will always output a 
> supposed 'UTF-8' 
> format even though I change the <xsl:output 
> encoding="ISO-8859-1'/> etc.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get the Xalan parser to properly 
> transform these 
> characters to their proper hex value?

Xalan just generates the result tree, it's the serializer that writes the actual outputstream - thus, if the Xalan default serializer doesn't output some characters as character entity references and that doesn't suit you, use your own serializer.

Jarno

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