Subject: Re: resolve html entities
From: Maximilian Gärber <max@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:42:44 +0100
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Thanks for the suggestion.
I hoped this would be easier, since these are all "standard" html
entities. I thought of two possible
approaches:
1.) the ugly one: do a string-replace
2.) get a fitting dtd/schema which maps these entities to unicode characters
Would either one be a good starting point?
Thanks,
Max
Michael Kay wrote:
I would suggest parsing the HTML using John Cowan's TagSoup parser. This
looks to the XSLT processor just like an XML parser, so you can probably
integrate it directly - depending on the XSLT processor that you are using.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Maximilian Gdrber [mailto:max@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 October 2005 08:40
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: resolve html entities
Hi,
I know this is a common question but I could not find a
specific answer
to this:
I am exporting texts from a database that contains html markup. Now I
need to transform
the html to something usable in a DTP application.
The tags are not the problem because I am only allowing a
subset of html
but the html entities
(german umlauts, special characters) would need to be transformed to
plain Unicode (UTF-8)
characters.
What is the best way to achieve this?
Thanks,
Max Gaerber
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