Thanks for responding, but I think you guys lost me.
Here is the xslt header info I used:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
I set output to HTML because that is the output I am creating. (isn't this
right?)
As for the encoding, I have to admit I am confused. I picked UTF-8 mostly
due to general recommendations for its use in learning-xml books and
websites (and that it is the default), but none I have seen explain why with
any detail or why anyone might use something different. The special
characters in my source xml file are all character references to the Unicode
numbers (&#___;, etc.)
As I understand it, shouldn't the XSLT processor know from the "encoding"
attribute that the references will be to Unicode numbers and read them
correctly as those characters. I also understand that the processor has some
flexibility in how it outputs the text, but that it will often output
special characters as entity references (e.g., the "&" symbol as "&").
So, I am still confused why a Unicode reference to #8212 won't output
correctly? The ouput displays a square box in both the browser (IE6) as well
as in the HTML source itself (viewed via Windows notepad).
> > > Shouldn't that be <xsl:output encoding="US-ASCII"... for safety?
> >
> > Neither is completely safe of course,
>
The spec only requires support for UTF-8 and UTF-16, anything else is
optional.
I personally use "iso-646" as the name of this encoding. The differences
are
immaterial (different names for some of the characters, I believe) but I
prefer international standards as a matter of principle.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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