Re: Trouble with special characters

I am transforming XML data that conforms to schema A, into XML data
that conforms to schema B. And the data contains special characters.

Input - Schema A

Input encoding UTF-8

<schemaa>
<list1>Degree symbol - "B0"</list1>

</schemaa>

Output - Schema B

Output encoding  ISO-8859-1

<schemab>
<process1>Degree - "C/B?B=</process1>

</schemab>

So what is the input encoding, what is the output encoding, do you
make sure that the XML declaration is output if the output encoding is
ISO-8859-1?
- input-UTF-8, output - ISO-8859-1, xsl:output has the attribute
encoding set to ISO-8859-1.

 How do you look at the transformation result when you get that gibberish?
- Not sure I understand what you mean. I use XML spy.

Which Unicode character is the "degree" character you want to output?
Why do you need the character map?
-Degree comes in as is (as the degree symbol). If transformed without
the character map, it converts to a question mark. That's why I use
the character map to map it to an HTMl entity.

Saxon is the processor used.




On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> a kusa akusa8@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I am trying to transform special characters in an XML file using XSLT
>> and I am having trouble with it.
>>
>> One of them that I am having trouble with is the degree symbol. The
>> encoding is set to ISO-8859-1 because the system that consumes the XML
>> is set to this encoding.
>>
>> So, on my XSL, I use the xsl:character-map and have mapped degree to
>> &#176; But for some reason, when the XML is converted, I only see
>> gibberish in place of the degree symbol.
>>
>> Degree - "C/B?B=
>>
>> I also have similar problems with the middle dot, null and section
>> symbols.
>>
>> Any suggestions on this is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> So what is the input encoding, what is the output encoding, do you make
sure
> that the XML declaration is output if the output encoding is ISO-8859-1?
How
> do you look at the transformation result when you get that gibberish?
>
> Which Unicode character is the "degree" character you want to output?
> Why do you need the character map?
>
> Can you post minimal samples of input, XSLT, XML output you want and the
one
> you get?