Re: Another question on ÄäÖöÜü

Marc,

I am afraid it's the way it is : XT XML output method is only supporting
utf-8 as documented on XT main page...

Note that the XML document is strictly equivalent.

The HTML method, by contrast is supporting other encodings (ISO-8859-1)
and is also transforming special characters into entity references which
have a predefined meaning for HTML but none for XML in general.

If it's really blocking for you, I can provide you with a special XML
Output Handler supporting other encodings (which is not exactly what you
mean).

Eric

"Beckers, Marc" wrote:
> 
> I have received XML documents in German.
> Letters with Umlauts are represented by
> control characters at the
> ASCII level, for example, ä for the
> small letter a with Umlaut. So far so good.
> 
> However, if I transform these documents to
> another XML dialect (output method is xml),
> the ä is changed to ä, which my editor
> changes to ä, making the German
> text difficult to read.
> 
> A conversion to HTML from the transformed XML
> outputs ä correctly.
> I am using XSLT with XT on NT, with encoding set to utf-8
> all the way.
> 
> Though this may be a bug/feature in the editor I am using,
> is there any way of preserving the original
> representation (the ä notation) from input
> to output XML?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dr. Marc Beckers
> Documentation Consultant
> Software AG
> Uhlandstraße 12
> D-64297 Darmstadt
> Phone +49-6151-92-1322
> Fax              -1612
> mailto:Marc.Beckers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.softwareag.com
> 
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