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January 12th, 2006, 12:13 PM
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pound symbol in XSL
Hello,
Could you please tell me how can i print out the pound symbol in XSLT?
I've tried the HTML entities £ #163; #xA3; but neither of them worked.
My stylesheet tag is:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8589" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
Is it because of the encoding?
Thank you,
Velissarios Krinis
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January 12th, 2006, 12:49 PM
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Assuming you mean the "pound sterling" symbol (£), and not the hash (#) sign which some Americans refer to as a pound sign, you can enter it in your stylesheet using the XML character reference #xa3; (that's & # x a 3 ; in case of email corruptions). £ is defined only in HTML, not in XML (unless you define it yourself in your DTD).
Your encoding could well cause problems, I think you meant ISO-8859-1 not ISO-8589. However, the encoding doesn't affect the interpretation of numeric character references, which always use Unicode code values, regardless of the encoding of the file.
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January 12th, 2006, 01:35 PM
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Thank you for the answer. I still have the problem though. As I mentioned at my first post, I have already tried the #xa3; reference.
Velissarios Krinis
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January 12th, 2006, 02:01 PM
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Well, we can only help you with the problem if you tell us what it is.
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January 17th, 2006, 03:17 PM
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I am also experiencing this problem. My encoding is set to ISO-8859-1 and i am using #163; to specify the pound sign. It is displaying as a ? in IE but when i look at the source in the browser it has been shows a £ character.
I have used the same code in other applications and it works fine. I cannot see why it should be different other than the working code is being displayed in a iframe.
Any ideas?
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January 17th, 2006, 03:47 PM
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On closer inspection i noticed that the working code is being applied by the browser whereas the faulty code is being processed server side in asp using Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0 and the transformNode method.
I am assuming that IE and IIS are both using the same version of msxml as they are both running on my laptop.
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January 17th, 2006, 05:24 PM
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It looks like a browser or web server issue rather than an XSLT issue. I'm no expert on this. Are you loading the file directly into IE, or via a web server? In the latter case it could be some kind of misconfiguration at the server causing the HTTP headers to be wrong. I think there are also possible IE configuration issues. What does the <meta> tag in the HTML (generated) source say about the encoding?
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January 17th, 2006, 05:26 PM
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If you use transformNode(), remember that the serialization is being done by the DOM processor and not by the XSLT processor, so anything you say in xsl:output is likely to be ignored.
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January 18th, 2006, 06:11 AM
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The XML is being generated by an asp application from a SQLServer db in both cases. For browser side processing the app is inserting a <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="prodpandp.xsl" ?> statement into the XML in which case the #163; gets correctly rendered.
For server side the same xsl file gets loaded into MSxml2 and run to produce the html output.
I cannot view the html source produced by the browser but for the second case it produces the following header that doesnt work
<html xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xslt">
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16">
How can I control the encoding server side?
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January 18th, 2006, 07:34 AM
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Hi All,
I think, I was also experiencing as same problem.
Source XML
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<fname>Bálá </fname> <lname>Krishnan</lname>
Used XSL
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:character-map name="isolat1">
<xsl:output-character character="á" string="á"/>
</xsl:character-map>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output XML
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<fname>Bálá </fname> <lname>Krishnan</lname>
Expected XML
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<fname>Bálá </fname> <lname>Krishnan</lname>
Thanks & Regards,
-ROCXY
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