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this is a classic FAQ a rule of thumb is to avoid enclosing anything into CDATA as it ceases to be accessable and used as xml. i would suggest a bit of preprocessing that will convert the entities into their numeric equivelents try using html tidy at www.w3.org. there are plenty of other methods. FAQ on entities http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N3573.html cheers, jim fuller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Kendall" <rkendall@xxxxxxxxx> To: "XSL-List" <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: Escaping/converting special characters > This is not really an XSL question but is closely related, so I hope someone > is kind enough to answer. > > I have some news feeds that I am transforming to WML. The feeds come in in > a flat text file, I wrote a quick and dirty Perl script to parse these text > files and convert them to XML (using XML::Simple), this then allows me to > easily transform them to WML using XSLT. > > On some files I get special characters (eg '£') which cause parse errors > when trying to transform my (not quite valid) XML. What I need to know is > how can easily convert these special characters to entities or escape them > with CDATA tags in such a manner that I can transform them to valid WML. Is > it a stupid idea to put all the data in CDATA tags? Otherwise, how will I > know which characters are going to need escaping. > > Any help appreciated. > > Ross Kendall > Technical Developer > Affinity Internet Holdings > e: rkendall@xxxxxxxxx > p: +44 (0)20 7670 1155 > w: http://www.aih.co.uk/ > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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