pound symbol in XSL

petebone · January 19th, 2006, 08:10 AM

I am still wrestling with this one. The problem is down to the output from the xsl processor generating a META tag with utf-16 rather than iso-8859-1 that is specified in the xsl:output instructon
eg <xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-1" />

generates:-
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16">

and i want :-
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

I tried character mapping but it caused errors. Is this allowed in version 1.0?

Can anyone help please?

joefawcett · January 19th, 2006, 08:21 AM

transformNode always gets UTF-16, use:

Code:

xmlDom.transformNodeToObject(xmlStyle, Response);

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

mhkay · January 19th, 2006, 08:47 AM

If you are getting UTF-16 when you asked for something else, it's because you are sending the output to a character stream rather than a byte stream, which means the actual encoding is being done outside the XSLT processor's control. As Joe already said, you need to change the way you run the transformation.

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

petebone · January 19th, 2006, 11:16 AM

Tried using transformNodeToObject but it does not seam to produce any output.Am I doing something silly?

Here is the code fragment that i am using in asp.

   var stylesheet = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
   stylesheet.async = false;
   stylesheet.loadXML(XSL);
   if (stylesheet.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
      var myErr = stylesheet.parseError;
      Response.Write("You have error " + myErr.reason);
            Response.Write("<XMLParseError>");
            Response.Write("<Error>" + myErr.errorCode + "::" + myErr.reason +"</Error>");
            Response.Write("</XMLParseError>");

   } else {
      // Set up the resulting document.
      var result = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
      result.async = false;
      result.validateOnParse = true;
      // Parse results into a result DOM Document.
      Response.Write(source.transformNodeToObject(styles heet, result));
     //Response.Write(source.transformNode(stylesheet));
   }

NB the tranformNode line that is commented out works fine.

joefawcett · January 19th, 2006, 01:36 PM

Code:

Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
var stylesheet = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
   stylesheet.async = false;
   stylesheet.loadXML(XSL);
   if (stylesheet.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
      var myErr = stylesheet.parseError;
      Response.Write("You have error " + myErr.reason);
            Response.Write("<XMLParseError>");
            Response.Write("<Error>" + myErr.errorCode + "::" + myErr.reason +"</Error>");
            Response.Write("</XMLParseError>");

   } else {
      // Set up the resulting document.
      var result = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
      result.async = false;
      result.validateOnParse = true;
      // Parse results into a result DOM Document.
   source.transformNodeToObject(stylesheet, Response);
  Response.Flush();
  Response.End();     
   }

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

petebone · January 19th, 2006, 02:16 PM

Thanks Joe and Mike for your help on this. It now works fine.