Re: Seeking a valid mdash


Could be Redmond.

Very strange: The test file below is on my local file system.

From http://validator.w3.org/, opening and validating the file

with IE 6.0.2800.1106, draws the "Sorry,... us-ascii...".

Same file, opened and validated through Mozilla 1.4
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624]
returns:

   This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!

What a pain.


I would still like to know any thought towards my second question:

2. What instructions/code can I put into a source xml document that
will produce the ascii string "&#8212;" in my xml/xhtml output document,
after Xalan xslt processing?


Thanks again to everyone.

William BC Crandall
Post Office Box 187
Lagunitas, CA 94938
bc(_dot_)crandall(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net

Just saw that my mailer dropped the mdash characters I want to show.
They appear in my text editor as â\200\224, or, in hex mode, e2 80 94.
When pasted in here as â?", or the ? replaced by an empty rectangular
box:  â€”

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William BC Crandall" <bc(_dot_)crandall(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net>
To: "William BC Crandall" <bc(_dot_)crandall(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net>
Sent: 18 July 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Seeking a valid mdash


Thanks to René, who caught the typo (did not change the result),
and to Jarno, for suggesting a test in Firebird (Page Info says:
"Encoding: UTF-8"), and David who questioned the validator.

I now have more clarity, but still the same problem.


The W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/), takes in this test file:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"

/>

    <meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />
    <title>[Test validate: mdash]</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
      There is an mdash here:
    </p>
    <p>
      Here is another: &#8212;
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
----------------------------------------------------------------------

and reports:

   "Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 13 it
   contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as us-ascii (in
   other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified
   Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and
   the character encoding indication."


Two questions:

1. Why does the validator see this file as us-ascii encoded?

2. What instructions/code can I put into a source xml document that
will produce the ascii string "&#8212;" in my xml/xhtml output document?

Thanks again for any thoughts.

William BC Crandall
Post Office Box 187
Lagunitas, CA 94938
bc(_dot_)crandall(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net



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