RE: weird character B , how to make

Hi, 
Btw, that character that I'm trying to make disappear
looks like the capital letter 'A' with an Italian
accent directly over the top of it.  
Anyway to answer your questions,
1. The XSLT processor that I'm using is Xalan, and the
method I use to transform is:
	public synchronized static org.w3c.dom.Document
transform(org.w3c.dom.Document source,
org.w3c.dom.Document stylesheet) {
		javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult result = new
javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult();
		String msgPrefix = ".transform: ";
		javax.xml.transform.Transformer transformer = null;
		javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory tFactory =
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.newInstance();
		try {
			transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new
javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource(stylesheet));
		} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
			staticLog.error(msgPrefix + e + " while
instantiating transformer");
		}

		try {
			transformer.transform(new
javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource(source), result);
		} catch (TransformerException e) {
			staticLog.error(msgPrefix + e + " while
transforming");
		}

	   	return (org.w3c.dom.Document) result.getNode();
	}

2. does the html include a meta element?
No.  should I use one?  

thanks in advance.
Paul

> 
> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:23:25 -0000
> From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE:  weird character B , how to make
> it disappear?
> 
> > I'm trying to get a raquo character to appear, but
> I'm
> > getting a  B before it.
> > How do I get rid of this B  ??
> > 
> > I've got the following for my xsl file at the top:
> > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='US-ASCII'?>
> > <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> > 	<!ENTITY raquo 	"»">
> > 	<!ENTITY sep 	" ">
> > ]>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> > 	<xsl:output method="html" encoding="US-ASCII"/>
> > 
> > then when I want the raquo to appear, my usage is:
> > 
> > &sep;&raquo;&sep;
> > 
> > but thru the browser, I'm getting as output:
> > 
> > B;
> > 
> > how do I make that B disappear?
> > I've also tried to change the encoding to
> iso-8859-1,
> > and the entity reference to &x187; but with no
> > success.  any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> It appears that the output is being generated in
> UTF-8, despite what you
> requested in the xsl:output. This might be because
> the XSLT processor
> isn't actually doing the serializing: can you
> explain which XSLT
> processor you are using and how you are invoking it?
> 
> The second problem is that although the output is in
> UTF-8, it isn't
> being recognized as UTF-8 by the browser. Does the
> generated HTML
> include a <meta> element defining the character
> encoding, and if so,
> what does it say?
> 
> Michael Kay
> 
> 


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