Dear All,

I came across a problem during converting the Character entity to Numerical entity.

Used XSLT:
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="US-ASCII" saxon:character-representation="decimal" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

XML Output:
"—" (i.e. mdash) --> "# 8212 ;"

Required XML Output:
"—" (i.e. mdash)--> "# 151 ;" [ASCII (decimal)]

Any help would be thank full.

Regards,
ROCXY

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Thanks,
Rocxy.

Numerical character references in XML are always Unicode code points. The Unicode code point for emdash is 8212. It's encoded as 151, I believe, in some Microsoft code-page; but that's immaterial. The Unicode code point 151 represents a control character. It's legal to have # 151 in an XML document but it doesn't represent an emdash. If you really want to output this character you could do it by writing

<xsl:text>#151;</xsl:text>

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

Dear All,

The Unicode point for emdash is 8212 but it encoded as 151 in Microsoft code-page. Is there any list available like this? so that i can hard-code it.
Any help would be thank full.

Regards,
RICHBIRD

Why do you need to hard code it? Even though this encoding is Microsoft-proprietary, many XSLT processors are likely to support it if you request <xsl:output encoding="cp1252"/>

Google for "cp1252 Unicode mapping" to find the conversion tables.

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