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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: UTF-8, RTF and XSLT
 RTF isn't XML so you woukd be better using text output than xml, also if you don't want non ascii characters encoded in utf8 then specify a different encoding eg latin1, so... Hi David, Yes. However, I think I may have been unclear before, so let me try again... My source XML looks something like this (i'm simplifying here): <?xml version="1.0" encoding=-"UTF-8" ?> <resultset> <data>theData</data> <data>someMoredata</data> <data>youGetTheIdea</data> </resultset> Now, let's assume theData contains the single Å (Å) character, which should render as a capital A with a ring over the top. If I open the raw XML file in a browser or other application that can read UTF-8 natively, this renders fine. If I open it in a pure text editor, then theData appears as two arbitrary characters and not a single Å. I do not have control over the raw XML file, so I can't change the way theData is encoded on the way in. OK, now my XSLT file looks something like this (again simplifying): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:myStuff="myURL" exclude-result-prefixes="myStuff"/> <xsl:output method="text" version="1.0" encoding="theEncoding" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> <xsl:template match="myStuff:resultset"> <xsl:for-each select="mystuff:data"> <xsl:text>a bunch of stuff</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="myStuff:data"/> <xsl:text>some more stuff</xsl:text> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> I have tried setting theEndoding to various static values such as "UTF-8", "iso-8859-1", "ISO-8859-1", other iso-8859-x variants and some other values. My xslt creates rich text files that need to be opened by various RTF readers. In every case I've tried, theData comes across as UTF-8 encoding, and is not coerced into a different encoding. If I open my final output file in a plain text editor, I'll see the same arbitrary characters I had originally. If I open the output in a UTF-8 capable reader, the characters do render properly. Since most RTF readers are not going to read UTF-8, how can I get myData to convert from UTF-8 to something more digestible. Since I'm creating Rich Text Format output, I would be happy to solve this problem within the rtf side of things; however, I'd much prefer to solve it by fixing my xslt stylesheet if possible. TIA, - Russ Russell Kohn , Chaparral Software & Consulting Services Inc. Calabasas, California - http://www.chapsoft.com - 818.225.1247 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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