RE: Re: Re[2]: Re: RE: R

> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin Burges
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 9:46 AM
> To: David Carlisle
> Subject:  Re:  Re[2]:  Re:  RE:  Re: 
>   is being displayed as Á
>
>
>
> [David]
> DC> d-o-e doesn't work in (say) mozilla, you get no warning: you just get
> DC> what you asked for, the characters  
> [Julian]
> JR> So you prefer to make your XSLT non-portable so that it will work in
> JR> mis-configured IEs? Although this will make it unusable in the "other"
> JR> browser?
>
> The difference is that I am not doing the transformation in the
> browser. I am using MSXML through a VB program to produce the HTML on
> my computer only.
> The HTML is then given (mailed or on disc) to someone else to view in
> IE. The only thing that needs d-o-e is MSXML. I understand that this
> is just my specific circumstances, and in others it may not be a good
> solution.
>
> Although I still assert that in my circumstances the d-o-e solution
> works, I have now changed it to use simply &#160 and give a
> Content-Type meta tag. When using iso-8859-1 this works, but if I try
> UTF-8 IE seems to still have some recognition problems. Not a problem
> though, iso-8859-1 is fine for me.

Interesting. Could you please post an example for an HTML file (that you
think is OK) which will not be displayd correctly by IE (under some
circumstances)? Please make it an attachment so that we really get to see
the byte stream. This would definitively help to find out where the issue
really is (and how it can be solved properly).


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