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subject:  Re:  character dagger

Hi,

Thank you all so much for your input on this.  Michael, I did check the XML file as well as XSL file of the encoding declaration.  This is what I have on both the files.  I did a copy and past of (†) the dagger symbol into the database.  I used java application to retrieve the
field and created xml file.  As I said earlier, using notepad I am able to see the dagger symbol of the xml file but not after applying xslt file.

Thanks

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='../810_005.xsl'?>
....

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:func="http://www.exslt.org/functions"
  xmlns:date="java.util.Date"
    xmlns:format="java.text.SimpleDateFormat"
    exclude-result-prefixes="date format">
       <xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
.....

Michael Kay wrote:

> > I do see the dagger symbol (†) in the xml file (using
> > nodepad).  Once I apply the syle sheet † becomes ⤢, and in
> > PDF † is #.  I realize that † is not present in iso-8859-1.
>
> If you see a dagger symbol in the file when you view it using NodePad, then the file cannot be in iso-8859-1 encoding. Forget FOP: you need to solve the problem by ensuring that the actual encoding of the XML file and the encoding declared in its XML declaration are the same.
>
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
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