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Subject: Re: [xsl] Identity Transform losing special characters
From: Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:53:29 +0000

On Fri, Feb 20 2009 06:43:58 +0000, jesper.tverskov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> My identity transform is losing the &#160;.
>
> The identity transformation always replaces character entities with

It happens in the XML parsing, even before the XSLT processor gets a
look at it, and happens irrespective of the stylesheet.

> what they represent. That is the non breaking space is still there but
> no longer as a character reference but as a non breaking space.

If you are using XSLT 2.0, you could "put back" specific numeric
character references using xsl:character-map or, as was pointed out
elsewhere, you could set the xsl:output encoding to "US-ASCII" so that
all non-ASCII characters are serialised as numeric character references.

Regards,


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