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Re: [xsl] Trouble transforming special characters

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Craig Whisenhunt wrote:

Hello,

I am transforming XML to HTML. The XML source has:

Peña

which should transform and display as Peqa.

Instead, the 'ñ' gets transformed into a '?'.

Same problem with mdash

Processor Information:
XSL version: 1
Vendor: Microsoft
Vendor URL: http://www.microsoft.com

Using VS2008, C#, .NET 3.5

My XSLT begins with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xml:space="default"
xmlns:l="urn::tlc.state.tx.us.salsa.legdoc">
  <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" use-character-maps="cm1"
indent="yes"/>
  <xsl:character-map name="cm1">
    <xsl:output-character character="&#160;" string="&amp;nbsp;"/>
    <xsl:output-character character="&#8212;" string="&amp;mdash;"/>
    <xsl:output-character character="&#233;" string="&amp;eacute;"/>
    <xsl:output-character character="&#241;" string="&amp;ntilde;"/>
  </xsl:character-map>

Note that when I do the transformation in XMLSpy, it works fine. Using
it in code, though, produces a '?'.

I think I did explain elsewhere that XML Spy supports XSLT 2.0 (i.e xsl:character-map) while XslCompiledTransform is an XSLT 1.0 processor that does not support any XSLT 2.0 constructs.
If you want to use XSLT 2.0 with .NET code then use Saxon 9 (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/) or use AltovaXML tools (http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html).


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	Martin Honnen
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