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Re: Special Characters in IE 6

2003-06-17 06:48:36
The newer (more compliant) Mozilla versions do this, too. This
works for me:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0"
  xmlns:cvs="http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_12.html";
  cvs:id="$Id: index.xsl,v 1.9 2003/06/14 13:34:20 dbibbens Exp $"> 

  <xsl:output 
    method="xml"
    media-type="text/html"
    doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
    doctype-system="DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
    cdata-section-elements="script style"
    encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; 
      cvs:id="$Id: index.xsl,v 1.9 2003/06/14 13:34:20 dbibbens Exp$">
      ...
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


"Rowlinson, Nicole SLGA" <NRowlinson(_at_)slga(_dot_)gov(_dot_)sk(_dot_)ca> 
writes:

I have a problem with special characters not displaying properly in IE 6.  I
use numeric character codes, such as &#160; for a space, and they all
display as a question mark in IE 6.  They all worked fine in IE 5.5, so I'm
not sure what is different now.

The encoding I am using in my XSL is:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

      <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>
      <xsl:template match="/">
              <html>
                      <head>
                              <meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
                      </head>
      ...

If I include 

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";

in my namespace, it gets rid of the question marks, but then the special
characters that don't use a numeric code, such as apostrophes, appear as
garbage characters.  I can't find the right combination to get rid of both
these problems at the same time.

I should say that I don't have control over the XML, as it is generated by a
third-party product.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Nicole R.

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