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RE: encoding and XSL Transformation
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:59:18 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] encoding and XSL Transformation
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
If you ask for UTF-8 encoding you will get UTF-8 encoding, and of course
it will look like a garbled mess if you then display it using software
that can't display UTF-8.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of
> Earl Bingham
> Sent: 10 September 2002 12:47
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] encoding and XSL Transformation
>
>
>
> 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.
> When I use james clark's xt parser. It will transform these
> characters
> nicely. Converting them to their hex representation ’
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Earl Bingham
>
>
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