Re: [xsl] 𡁀 coming out as ?

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Randy Belknap wrote:
> I've got a .xsl file with the following html markup in it:
> 
> <td>&#21040;</td><td>5/1/02</td>
> 
> where &#21040; is the decimal value of a chinese character.  The problem is
> that when I run the xsl through the transformer (MICROSOFT.XMLDOM), it
> outputs <td>?</td><td>5/1/02</td>.  Is this enough information to know what
> I am doing wrong?

Post a code sample of how you are creating the document and invoking the 
transformer, and where your result is going. I'm sure someone can point
out what you're doing wrong.

> I tried to get around the problem by used CDATA as follows:
> 
> <td><![CDATA[&#21040;]]></td><td>5/1/02</td>
> 
> but that produces <td>&amp;#21040;</td><td>5/1/02</td>, so the browser
> displays &21040; instead of the chinese character.  

As it should.

> (BTW, I thought CDATA
> was supposed to be not parsed at all.)

It is not parsed in the sense that it is not scanned for "&" and "<"  
characters indicating the start of more markup, but it is parsed in the sense
that it is read by an XML parser and reported to the application as a block of
character data just like any other character data; it is not flagged as being 
special in any way. It's just a convenience for the document author so you
don't have to escape "&" and "<". Most of the time you should just pretend 
CDATA sections don't exist, because they won't help you in the way that you 
want them to.

   - Mike
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