Syntax for Hexadecimal NCRs ?

RICHBIRD · June 26th, 2006, 05:42 AM

Hi All,

I am using XSLT 2.0, following is the syntax used to generate Decimal NCRs:

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

what would be the syntax to generate Hexadecimal NCRs: ??

Any help would be great full

Thanks,
RICHBIRD.

mhkay · June 26th, 2006, 05:47 AM

I guess NCR = numeric character reference?

XSLT doesn't define whether output character references should be decimal or hexadecimal, and doesn't allow you to choose. But Saxon has a switch to control this, saxon:character-representation.

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

RICHBIRD · June 26th, 2006, 07:17 AM

Dear Michael,

Thanks for your valuable sytnax, since following syntax results the same decimal output.
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1"
saxon:character-representation="native;hex"/>

Input
ÃÂ±

current output
#945;

required output
#x003B1;

Any help would be great full

Thanks,
RICHBIRD.

mhkay · June 26th, 2006, 07:34 AM

The format native;hex applies to method="html" only

http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio...sentation.html

For method="xml", just use saxon:character-representation="hex"

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

RICHBIRD · June 27th, 2006, 05:42 AM

Dear Michael,

Following is the used code .....

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1" saxon:character-representation="hex"/>

Since it result the decimal NCRs.

Help needed.

Thanks,
RICHBIRD.

mhkay · June 27th, 2006, 06:22 AM

Perhaps you declared the saxon namespace incorrectly?

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

RICHBIRD · June 27th, 2006, 06:34 AM

Dear Michael,

Following is the used namespace .....

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml"
xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core"
   xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
  xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint"
  xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
  exclude-result-prefixes="aml w wx o v"
  xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
  extension-element-prefixes="saxon"  >

Waiting eagerly

Thanks,
RICHBIRD.

mhkay · June 27th, 2006, 07:15 AM

For Saxon 8.x (and indeed 7.x) the correct namespace is "http://saxon.sf.net/"

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

RICHBIRD · June 27th, 2006, 08:00 AM

Dear Michael,

Thanks for your valuable guidance. But it generates as &x3b1; instead #x003B1;

Any help would greatful.

Thanks,
RICHBIRD.

mhkay · June 27th, 2006, 08:16 AM

Sorry, at that point you're out of luck.

You never explained why you are trying to get such detailed control of the output. Is the consumer of these documents really so poorly-designed that it requires exactly 5 (!) hexadecimal digits?

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