XHTML is XML, which has no pre-defined "character entities" for
characters such as ü - therefore they will never be used in
serialized XML or XHTML output.
You can force the use of numeric character references by specifying the
output encoding as US-ASCII (or in Saxon, by saying
saxon:character-representation="decimal").
Why do you need these characters to be represented as entities?
Michael Kay
Software AG
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Hannes Schmiderer
Sent: 09 March 2003 22:50
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] XHTML output and special character entities
I have a XML source file which uses iso-8859-1 encoding such
that I can enter German umlauts easily.
I used
<xsl:output method="html"/>
in the XSLT Script to produce HTML output. The umlauts where
transformed to the appropriate entity (ü -> ü) .
Now I wanted to create XHTML output instead of HTML.
I changed the output method to xml and tried different encodings, for
instance:
<xsl:output method="xml"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transit
ional.dtd"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" indent="yes"
encoding="iso-8859-1" />
But I do not know how I can get the xslt processor to
transform the umlauts into their corresponding entity. Do I
have to use xhtml-lat1.ent (and the other entities files) somehow?
I'm using SAXON 6.5.2.
Thanks for any hint!
Hannes Schmiderer
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