1) The pre-defined entities in an XML document are found here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#syntax
2) Either:
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
£<xsl:value-of select="data/premiumAmount" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
Or, if you think you will use it more than once...
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY pound "£">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
£<xsl:value-of select="data/premiumAmount" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
Etc
Rgs,
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: Richie B [mailto:richie(_at_)musicplace(_dot_)screaming(_dot_)net]
Sent: 18 December 2002 17:52
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Using HTML entity codes within XSL?
Hi,
I'm trying to do something like the following in XSL:
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
£<xsl:value-of select="data/premiumAmount" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
I'd like to output HTML character entities to a browser, so that the browser
will render the correct character internally, independent of the user's set-up,
rather than having to use something like a pound symbol "£" for the Latin-1
character set - but I obviously get an error if I try to use "£" within
the XSL ("Reference to undefined entity 'pound'."). The solution at
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/characters.html
says to specify the character set, but this would defeat the purpose, and also
systems aren't required to understand any encodings other than UTF-8 and
UTF-16. Is there a way I can, in some form, use something like "£" or
another character reference (such as "é") in my XSL without specifying a
specific character set/number to use? Also, I've noticed I can already use
certain codes such as "&" and ">" - is there a list of defined codes
which can be used in XSL?
Thanks,
Rich
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