Re: Problems generating w-circumflex character for HTM

Hi,

I'm using three XSLT files to generate an HTML output.

The first, is a base file - this generates the actual HTML. This has the output encoding of <xsl:output method="html"/>

The second, just contains a series of <xsl:variable> elements to define text strings (I have multiple versions of this second file for different languages) This has the output encoding of <xsl:output method="xml"/>

The third just imports the first two (again, there is one per language), it has the <xsl:output method="html"/> tag.

All three files have their encoding set to UTF-8

Some of my xsl:variable values have unicode characters in. Mostly, they work fine if I just use the &#x....; format to specify the unicode character. (e.g. &#x00E2; gives me a lower-case a with a circumflex on it)

However, I'm having great dificulty trying to generate a lower-case w with a circumflex.

The unicode character for this is 0175(hex) If I put that in my stylesheet, I get a captial a with a circle above it followed by a greek u in the final HTML output.

In HTML the w-circumflex character is defined as &wcirc; - and if I put that in an HTML document it displays fine.

a) the content-type HTTP header and
b) in the HTML meta tag.

I'm using Xalan 2.6.0 as my XSLT engine.

What silly mistake am I making ? What can I do to generate a w-circumflex ?

Thanks,

GTG

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