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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Escaping/converting special characters
 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. It sounds like the incoming files are in ISO 8859-1 encoding (Latin-1). If so, then tell your Perl script to output an encoding parameter in the XML declaration, or follow "cutlass"'s suggestion and turn everything above character 127 into a numeric character reference. Either should be pretty easy to do in Perl. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://www.hmmci.com/ > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA Attachment:
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