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>I've got XML documents, marked up to a DTD, and calling character entity >sets. When I run through the XSLT processor (xalan) to output another XML >file I find the entities have been converted to something different, and >fairly inconsistently. > >What I would like to achieve is having “ ü in my input xml, and >these entities still being untouched in my output. Can anyone advise how I >achieve this please? > >What I'm getting are (&ldquo;, &uuml;), or (“ and ü), or (“ >and ü), depending on character encoding settings and entity sets used. Am I >missing something? > “ ü are not predefined character entities. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-predefined-ent They apear as literal text strings '&' 'l' 'd' 'q' 'u' 'o' ';' and so when searialized to XML the '&' character is replaced by '&' giving &ldquo; if you are making an HTML document and want these character entities you should specify the correct character entity and put. <xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"> Edward Middleton XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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