Re: strange encoding problem



On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Andreas Schildbach wrote:

i've got an utf-8 encoded xml file (test.xml) with an umlaut character, like
this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<a>ue</a> <!-- this is an &uuml; not the two chars u and e -->

[...] 

when i use tomcat, jsp and the jstl (java standard tag library) to apply the
transformation

<%@ taglib prefix="x" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml"; %>
<c:import url="test.xml" var="xml"/>
<c:import url="test.xsl" var="xsl"/>
<x:transform xml="${xml}" xslt="${xsl}"/>

the result is &Atilde;&frac14;
which is NOT correct in my opinion.



The following hack might help you to work around the problem. Redefine the
character entity so that it refers to a numeric character entity. In other
words, make your XML look something like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html [
  <!ENTITY uuml  "&#x00FC;">
]>

I have found that, in general, numeric character entity references survive
repeated processing better than do the HTML named references.

// Gregory Murphy <Gregory(_dot_)Murphy(_at_)sun(_dot_)com>
// Software Engineer
// Customer Network Platform, Sun Microsystems


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