Re: [xsl] Trouble transforming special characters

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Is there a way for me to do this without character maps such that I
don't have to change the XSL processor? I may not be in a position to
switch to Saxon 9.

Thanks again,
-Craig

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Martin Honnen 
<Martin(_dot_)Honnen(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de> wrote:
> Craig Whisenhunt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am transforming XML to HTML. The XML source has:
> >
> > Pe&ntilde;a
> >
> > which should transform and display as Peña.
> >
> > Instead, the '&ntilde;' gets transformed into a '?'.
> >
> > Same problem with mdash
> >
> > Processor Information:
> > XSL version: 1
> > Vendor: Microsoft
> > Vendor URL: http://www.microsoft.com
> >
> > Using VS2008, C#, .NET 3.5
> >
> > My XSLT begins with:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xml:space="default"
> > xmlns:l="urn::tlc.state.tx.us.salsa.legdoc">
> >  <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" use-character-maps="cm1"
> > indent="yes"/>
> >  <xsl:character-map name="cm1">
> >    <xsl:output-character character="&#160;" string="&amp;nbsp;"/>
> >    <xsl:output-character character="&#8212;" string="&amp;mdash;"/>
> >    <xsl:output-character character="&#233;" string="&amp;eacute;"/>
> >    <xsl:output-character character="&#241;" string="&amp;ntilde;"/>
> >  </xsl:character-map>
>
> > Note that when I do the transformation in XMLSpy, it works fine. Using
> > it in code, though, produces a '?'.
> I think I did explain elsewhere that XML Spy supports XSLT 2.0 (i.e
> xsl:character-map) while XslCompiledTransform is an XSLT 1.0 processor that
> does not support any XSLT 2.0 constructs.
> If you want to use XSLT 2.0 with .NET code then use Saxon 9
> (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/) or use AltovaXML tools
> (http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html).
>
>
> --
>
>        Martin Honnen
>        http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
>
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