RE: Problem with XT and encoding?

Paul, et. al.:

Thanks for the reply. I tried adding the encoding to the <xsl:output>
element and got the same result. In fact, the encoding attribute of the
resulting document was *still* utf-8, even when I specifically tried to set
the encoding to iso-8859-1. Odd.

On the advice of Janning Vygen I downloaded Saxon and found that fixed my
problem. It seemed to handle the encoding properly. I don't know if XT just
doesn't handle the encoding correctly or if there is another explanation,
but for now I'm just going to switch to Saxon as my XSLT engine.

BTW, I noticed that showed up on the digest version of the list didn't
contain the same characters that I sent (those darn encoding issues again
:-), so for those who didn't understand my previous note, here's a summary:

The XML file contained the "Right Angle Quote" character, which looks like
>> and which is character number 187 in the ISO-8859-1 char set. The XML
file was encoded as ISO-8859-1. When the XML was processed by XT the >>
character was replaced by an 'A' with a circumflex (character 194) followed
by the Right Angle Quote (character 187).

Thanks again to Paul and Janning for responding!

MK

> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 08:32:06 -0700
> From: "Clapham, Paul" <pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE:  Problem with XT and encoding?
> 
> Yes, it is a simple encoding issue.  You have specified the encoding of
your
> input XML as ISO-8859-1, but you have not specified the encoding of your
> output XML, so it defaults to UTF-8.  This encoding requires 2 (or more
> bytes) for characters above Unicode 127.  Try this:

>  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

> PC2

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kennedy [mailto:MarkK@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: May 30, 2001 08:17
To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject:  Problem with XT and encoding?


Hello, all:

I'm having a problem with transformations using XT when using characters
that are outside of the standard ASCII 127, and I can't figure out why. In
the following examples, the ; is character 187 in ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1). That
character (and seemingly any character greater than the standard 127) gets
turned into two characters, i.e. the ; gets turned into B;

I imagine this is some simple encoding issue, but I'm flummoxed. The only
other XSLT engine that I have available for testing is the MSXML in IE5, and
I don't get this result with it, though I don't really think that means
much.

I'm running the Win32 binary of XT on and NT machine.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Input XML File:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
 <test>;</test>

XSLT File:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:copy-of select="test"/>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Resulting XML File:
<test>B;</test>

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