Hi all,

Can somebody let me know why my character entities are getting converted into unicode values in the resulting transformed output.

My Input is
<surname>Norberg&hyphen;Sch&ouml;nfeldt</surname>

Output:

<surname>Norberg[#x02010]Sch[#x000F6]nfeldt</surname>

And here the snippet of my stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" media-type="text/xml"/>

I am using Editx 2008 on windows.

Thanks for suggestions.

Pankaj



Pankaj

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Because that's what XML parsers do.

The XSLT processor can't convert the characters back to entity references because it doesn't know that they started life as entity references - the XML parser doesn't pass on this information.

If you really need to preserve the entity references, the only way to do it is to convert them into something else first (for example &hyphen; becomes <?pi hyphen?>), by preprocessing using non-XML-aware tools such as sed or Perl,and then reverse the process afterwards.

However, this only matters for human readers of your output. Any well-behaved software processing the output will treat the Unicode character as 100% equivalent to the original entity reference.

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

"Any well-behaved software processing the output will treat the Unicode character as 100% equivalent to the original entity reference."

Well in that case I think I will be lucky. I need to import transformed xml into Adobe Indesign CS2.

Thanks Michael, I will test it and will revert for help if required.

Pankaj


Pankaj