What you are seeing is the url encoding of the characters because they appear
in the href attribute, with an output method set to html.
More info:
http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html
or search for "url encoding unicode" in your favorite search engine.
Josh
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Simoneau [mailto:Matthew(_dot_)Simoneau(_at_)mathworks(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:38 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] encoding shift_jis into an attribute
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to figure out how to HTML encode shift_jis text and put it
into an attribute.
I start with this XML-file with characters encoded in shift_jis:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="shift_jis"?>
<test>
<label>??</label>
</test>
?? are two Japanese characters in the file, but I wanted to send this
out as ASCII for maximum legibility.
When I apply this simple stylesheet
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="test">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:value-of select="label"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
it creates output that looks like this:
<html>
<body>数学</body>
</html>
Notice how the shift_jis characters have been HTML escaped (or encoded?)
and display fine in the browser. So far so good. But now I want to put
these escaped characters into an attribute. Here is the HTML I'd really
like to make:
<html>
<body><a href="matlab:disp('数学')">foo</a></body>
</html>
Notice that the same two encoded Japanese characters are now within an
attribute and surrounded by some other text. I've tried every trick I
know and searched all over the Internet, but haven't been able to figure
this one out. Whenever I try to put it into an attribute (using
<xsl:attribute> or something), I get "%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%A6" (which I don't
even understand), not "数学" (which is what I want).
Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks for your
help!
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