[ani(_at_)lamundial(_dot_)net]
When transforming (xerces I guess) and html outputting
marked characters "á" become entities "á"
is there anyway to avoid entitiens because I need the marked
characters in the html
thanks
a.lopez
(this is the 3rd time I ask this and no responses so I don't
know what to think, is this such a stupid question? nobody
read my emails?....)
This kind of question comes up often enought that it must be possible to find
out about it in the FAQs and list archives.
There is a difference between what character is in a file, and what glyph gets
displayed in a browser (or text editor). Problems arise when the character
encoding of the source file is different from the encoding that the browser
expects to see.
A browser should display the character entity (like á) with the correct
glyph(s) - at least, if its character set contains the requested character and
the encoding supports it.. Generally, the xslt processor would output a
character entity when 1) the output method is set to html, and 2) the chosen
encoding cannot otherwise represent the character.
Remember that if you do not specify an encoding, you will get either utf-8 or
utf-16. The html output should include a <meta> element stating the encoding,
and the browser should honor that. However, one or more of these things may
not happen, and then the character may not display right.
So you need to make sure that your browser is using the same encoding as the
transformed output, and verify that the wrong glyph is getting displayed for
the character entity even if the encoding is correct. The presence of the
character entity usually is enough to get the character displayed properly. Do
not go by what you see on a text editor, which may use the wrong encoding. See
what the browser actually displays.
Cheers,
Tom P
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