Ken,
Thanks. I used the nbsp as a sample but was thinking also about non HTML
entities but this is great for those entities that are defined in HTML. I sort
of forgot about the html method which makes all if this very simple.
Terry
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From: G. Ken Holman <gkholman(_at_)CraneSoftwrights(_dot_)com>
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 11:50:54 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Entities in XSL (again)
At 2010-02-17 07:36 -0800, Terry Badger wrote:
Thank you. I thought I could get the stylesheet to declare the 'missing'
entity in the xml file but that is the duty of the xml file and the parser
would get this problem before the stylesheet got it. I can just use
disable-output-escaping to put that entity in if needed on the output.
Ouch!
That is not the use case for disable-output-escaping="yes".
The entity " " is from an entity set used by HTML. The HTML serialization
recognizes this and is supposed to use the entity name when the result tree is
serialized:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xslt-xquery-serialization-20070123/#HTML_CHARDATA
Entity references and character references SHOULD be used only
where the character is not present in the selected encoding, or
where the visual representation of the character is unclear (as
with , for example).
However you declare or use the entity in the XML file, if the result tree text
node has Š and you are using HTML serialization, then you should get what
you want.
Now if you want to serialize your result tree as XML then you may be stuck:
using disable-output-escaping="yes" for will produce a non-well-formed
result because there is no entity declaration. Unless, perhaps, you are using
standard XSLT to add the DOCTYPE declaration pointing to an external
declaration subset that includes a declaration for that entity.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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