Subject: RE: [xsl] Is it possible to get " " in output rather than the encoded character? From: "Steven Reddie" <smr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:15:26 +1000 |
Hi Ken, thanks for this info. Are you saying that by outputting a single character rather than the text " " that the processor is non-conformant (I think you're saying that section 16.2 makes this optional), or that getting an 0xFF byte in the stream rather than an 0xA0 is the problem? Thanks, Steven -----Original Message----- From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2004 3:12 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Is it possible to get " " in output rather than the encoded character? At 2004-05-19 14:26 +1000, Steven Reddie wrote: >I'm fairly new to XML and am trying to generate an HTML file from >XML/XSL. ... If I load the xml file (which references the xsl) from >within IE6 the " " is displayed as I'd expect (whitespace). >However, when using the Microsoft .NET XslTransform, outputting to >stdout and redirected to a file I get an ASCII character of value 0xff >in the file. Sounds like the processor is not conformant. >What I'd really like is >to get the unencoded " " in the file so that it looks like typical >HTML. Section 16.2 of XSLT says this is optional and one cannot request that it be that way or not: "The html output method may output a character using a character entity reference, if one is defined for it in the version of HTML that the output method is using." >I've tried "&nbsp" but it comes out unchanged. Right ... as it should. >If this is possible I'd really appreciate some pointers. I would point to fixing the non-conformant behaviour and not trying to change something that is already working. >On a similar note, is there some escape mechanism such as "\ " or >"& " (I realise those aren't valid). But you shouldn't be trying to escape it as it isn't text, it is markup. No such method exists. I hope this helps. ...................... Ken -- Public courses: Spring 2004 world tour of hands-on XSL instruction Next: 3-day XSLT/XPath; 2-day XSL-FO - Birmingham, UK June 14,2004 World-wide on-site corporate, govt. & user group XML/XSL training. G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/m/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/m/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal
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