Hi All,

Following is a XML file

<para>John O'Donovan, Annála roghachta Éireann: Annals of the kingdom</para>

I would like to convert it as follows

<para>John O'Donovan, Annála roghachta Éireann: Annals of the kingdom</para>

Exactly I don’t know how to frame this case in XSL, because I am new using entity transformation in XSL.

SAXON is my XSLT processor.

I sincerely appreciate any help in this regard.

Thanks & Regards,
- ROCXY

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Thanks,
Rocxy.

Your output seems to be identical to your input - presumably this isn't what you intended.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I would like to convert it as follows

<para>John O'Donovan, Ann &.aacute; la roghachta &E.acute;ireann: Annals of the kingdom</para>

Please strip "." while reading.

aacute;
Eacute;

I sincerely appreciate any help in this regard.

Thanks & Regards,
- ROCXY

You mean, you want the entity references to be used in the output?

This will happen automatically with the HTML output method (in Saxon), because HTML has predefined entities for these characters. This isn't true of XML output. You can force it using character maps, but it's hard work. To be honest, XSLT is best for manipulating XML at the logical level, and if you need to manipulate the physical level you may be better off with a tool such as awk or sed.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference