Just a practical note, I have been working with encoding 'us-ascii' for
years now. It outputs the characters within the 7-bit range as plain
text and anything above as numeric character references. Most common
parsers XSLT 1 are respecting this, though I am not sure what the specs
say about this.
It might be a satisfactory alternative for you, Bryan.
These numeric character references can also be traced easily with plain
text processing to add signaling of characters beyond the 7 of 8-bit
range, or something like that.
Kind regards,
Geert
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From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com]
Sent: woensdag 7 mei 2008 17:20
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] output to iso-8859-1 of non-iso
characters, what is required action
But if I am outputting a text document with iso-8859-1 then the
presence of non-iso characters in the output will raise an error.
The spec says "should" rather than "will". XSLT 2.0 is
stricter, it says "must".
If you're asking what the spec says, that's the answer. If
you're asking why it says that, that's a different question.
It's very hard to answer questions about why a WG made a
particular decision even if you were at all the relevant
meetings - which I wasn't. What one can do is try to invent a
rationale that the WG might use to justify the decision if
asked. But clearly in this case different users are likely to
have different expectations and requirements, so it's a
subjective decision.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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