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RE: HTML input tag problem and Unicode

2003-03-10 02:43:17
Can somebody tell me how to solve this?

when i load data from DB and to redisplay in the input
tag for example like this :

<input type="text" name="input">
      <xsl:attribute name="value">
              <xsl:value-of select="input_value"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
</input>

input_value from xml file
i use encoding ISO8859-1.
it keeps on display &#...; characters for the signed character
if i use text area tag and i use
disable-output-escaping="yes" characteristics
i can remove these &# .. characters!!!

but for <input> it does not work???

If you want vietnamese characters to be converted from character entities you 
should change the encoding to one that supports the characters. e.g. utf-8. 
This can be done with

<xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-8"/>

If disable-output-escaping actually converted the character from character 
entities then there is a bug in your xslt processor.

from the xslt 1.0 specification.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#disable-output-escaping
If output escaping is disabled for a character that is not representable in the 
encoding that the XSLT processor is using for output, then the XSLT processor 
may signal an error; if it does not signal an error, it must recover by not 
disabling output escaping.

I suspect that you are looking at the page in a web browser that doesn't 
support character entities very well and so it is not displaying character 
entities properly in attributes but is in text nodes.

Edward Middleton

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