Re: character entity references; saxon ie 6.0 differences

Dan,

At 12:59 PM 8/26/2003, you wrote:
> I have the following XML fragment:
>
> <RECORDITEM sqlsource="cityprov" colname="col4">Montr&eacute;al,
> QC<RECORDREF>specialannual</RECORDREF></RECORDITEM>
>
> I want my output to be:
>
> <td>Montr&eacute;al</td><td>specialannual</td>
> My xsl is:
>         <xsl:for-each select="RECORDITEM">
>           <td align="right">
>             <font face="verdana" size="1">
>             <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
>             </font>
>           </td>
>           <td align="right">
>             <font face="verdana" size="1">
>             <xsl:value-of select="RECORDREF"/>
>             </font>
>           </td>
>         </xsl:for-each>
> When I use ie 6.0 to open this the entity "&eacute;" is not interpreted as
> text? so I get something like the following:
> <td align="right>Montr</td><td align="right">specialannual</td>
> When I translate it with saxon everything comes out as I want.
> Which is correct and can I write my XSL to overcome the discrepancy?
Saxon is correct, at least if you interpret the spec strictly as to what 
constitutes a text node.
For some reason, IE is splitting the text node into pieces around the 
entity reference, so when you say select="text()" it's only giving you the 
piece before the entity appeared.
There may be a setting you can switch when you invoke it to make it behave 
in closer conformance with XPath's expectations, not whatever DOM it's 
using that discriminates those entity references.
This can't be fixed straight from the stylesheet, but if you can tweak your 
XML source to be something a bit more robust, such as
<RECORDITEM sqlsource="cityprov" colname="col4">
  <VALUE>Montr&eacute;al, QC</VALUE>
  <RECORDREF>specialannual</RECORDREF>
</RECORDITEM>

then it'd be easy to write stronger XSLT that would fix this (MSXML should 
report the  value of VALUE properly irrespective of the entity reference).
Cheers,
Wendell


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