RE: Special characters in XML

Hello Joep,

I had the same problem you have. It seems like a bug in msxml, it does work
in the Saxon or XT.

I have a work around. I added to the 'template match=text()' a routine that
finds all characters with a unicode > 256 and then I replace this with the
correct character reference.
To retrieve the character number I use VBScript in the xsl.
It slows the transformation down, because there is a check on every
character, but you get what you want.

If you are interested I can send you the code.

Ewout Kanger

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joep Laumans [SMTP:joepl@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, September 01, 2000 3:01 PM
> To:	XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Special characters in XML
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I have in my xsl file a value &#149  ( it is the · ) 
> I have a xml file with the encoding set to iso-8859-1
> 
> When use the MS xml parser ( the july 2000 version ) it will change the
> &#149 into a ? ( a question mark)
> When i use the &middot in stead of the &#149  it will tell me that the
> element does not exists.
> 
> How can I get the &#149 to display properly ..
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Joep Laumans
> 
> 
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