Re: Is it possible to get " " in output rather th

> 1 and do the translation
> of non-printable characters to � format myself

Actually why do you care? Any conforming html or xml product will be
quite happy to have the nbsp in utf8 format (and most xml and all html
systems will also accept latin1)

If your processor is translating to ? then that's a bug but a conforming
action on receiving an nbsp and a request to  encoding="us-ascii"
would be to die and say you don't support ascii, only utf 8 and 16 need
be supported. So you may not be any happier with a conforming system.

Despite my question above I do sometimes care and use US-ASCII as output
from saxon (and then post-process with sed to remove the encoding
declaration as I have xml parsers that don't accept US-ASCII and so die
on the first line if that is there). But my question remains, if getting
character data is easy and getting a numeric character refernce is hard,
why not just go with the flow and take the character data.

David

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