hi to everyone,
I have got an XML file and I want show it with the browser.

the XML includes some special characters like à, è, i...

when I try to transform the XML with the XSL, Internet Explorer doesn't show me nothing. Just the error

"<ins:Cognome>Cal"

the element into the xml file is <ins:Cognome>Calà</ins:Cognome>

The same happens everywhere there is a not conventional character.

below there is a piece of xsl.

The encoding used is UTF-8.

Can someone give me some help?

Thank



<table width="100%" border="1">
            <tbody>
                <xsl:if test="string-length(ins:DatiAnagrafici/ins:PersonaFisica/ins:Cognome)!=0">
                        <tr>
                            <td width="50%">
                                Creditore (Persona Fisica)
                            </td>
                            <td width="50%">
                                <xsl:value-of select="ins:DatiAnagrafici/ins:PersonaFisica/ins:Cognome"/><![CDATA[ ]]>
                                <xsl:value-of select="ins:DatiAnagrafici/ins:PersonaFisica/ins:Nome"/>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="50%">
                                Codice Fiscale
                            </td>
                            <td width="50%">
                                <xsl:value-of select="ins:Identificativo/@ins:CodiceFiscale"/>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="50%">
                                Indirizzo
                            </td>
                            <td width="50%">
                                <xsl:value-of select="ins:DatiAnagrafici/ins:PersonaFisica/ins:Indirizzo"/>
                            </td>
                        </tr>

Most likely explanation is that your input file is encoded either in iso-8859-1 or in Microsoft cp1252, but it doesn't contain an encoding declaration so the parser is assuming UTF-8. What happens if you display the XML file directly in the browser? What happens if you run the transformation outside the browser (in some environment that gives better diagnostics...).



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

The files (XML and XSL) encoding is for both UTF-8.

If I display the xml file directly into the browser (IE), I get the error too.

If I display with firefox the file that I have got from the transformation , I can't see the character, but at least I don't get any error and I can see the file.

I downloaded I freeware tool yesterday (cooktop) and I get the error.

If you want I can send you both of file (XML and XSL).

Thank
Ciccio

>If I display the xml file directly into the browser (IE), I get the error too.

OK, so you've got a bad XML file. No point running XSLT on it. You have to work out where it came from and how it came to be corrupt. Most likely it's simply using cp1252 encoding and doesn't say so in the header.

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

Try opening in Notepad, or similar, and using the bottom dropdown to save in UTF-8.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)