Re: Yet Another Entity Ref question!

Thanks Mike!!
However the problem is more general; suppose you have a content management
engine that takes as input an XML, applies an XSL and produces an HTML.
So an unknown user write an XML sheet (following a well-known grammar);
inside this sheet he/she can put an element like
     <entity>ent</entity>
where "ent" can be numberi (e.g. "#x0A") or symbolic (e.g. "agrave").
The engine should transform this element into the entity reference "&ent;"
(e.g. "&#x0A;" or "&agrave;"), through an XSL template like:

<xsl:template match="entity">
  <xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[&]]></xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="." /><xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

the problem arises when I use the result of this template; if the result
is taken as-is, I will get the right thing ("&ent;"); if the result is
stored inside a variable I have to disable-output-escaping when using
xsl:value-of. For example

XML
...
<doc>
  <label>Foobar<entity>ent</entity></label>
</doc>

XSL:
...
<xsl:template match="doc">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="label" /> <!-- ok! -->
   <xsl:variable name="label">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="label" />
   </xsl:variable>
   <xsl:value-of select="$label" />  <!-- not ok -->
   <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$label" />  <!-- ok
-->
</xsl:template>
...

So I can't substitute the value of the entity with the related UNICODE
representation because I don't know that entity.
Any idea?
Thanks so much!!

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Mike Brown wrote:

> Marco Guazzone wrote:
> > I'd like to produce an entity reference, say "&copy;", from XML to HTML
> > through XSLT;
> Put Unicode character #169 (the copyright symbol) in your stylesheet
> with &#169; or &#xA9;
>
> Change your output encoding to us-ascii to ensure that the XSLT processor
> won't emit that character directly encoded. ASCII does not have a copyright 
> symbol, so the processor will emit a numeric character reference like &#169; 
> or an entity reference like &copy.
>
> You won't be able to control whether the processor emits &#169; or
> &copy;, but I believe most XSLT processors try to emit entity refs when
> the character falls in the latin-1 range and isn't able to be expressed
> directly in the given encoding.
>
> Mike
>
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