Convert ASCII to UTF char

Post by **gardefjord** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:45 pm

Hi all,
I have html-files with a bunch of ASCII-signs inside. Like so:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="sv">

<head>

<title>De andra</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="Styles.css" type="text/css" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="application/vnd.adobe-page-template+xml" href="page-template.xpgt" />

</head>

<body>

<div class="booksection">

<h1 id="ch001"><a id="page_011"></a>Molly Beslutet</h1>

<p class="noindent_j1">N&#x00E4;r Molly vaknade str&#x00E4;ckte hon ut ena armen mot den andra kudden. Den var lika tom som den varit det senaste halv&#x00E5;ret. Ingen kind att smeka, ingen kropp att krypa intill. Pelle fanns helt enkelt inte d&#x00E4;r.</p>

<p class="indent_j">Hon satte sig upp och sl&#x00E4;ppte ner f&#x00F6;tterna i f&#x00E5;rskinnsf&#x00E4;llen. Den mjuka, lockiga k&#x00E4;nslan fick hennes kropp att l&#x00E5;ngsamt vakna. Hon tog ett par steg fram till f&#x00F6;nstret, &#x00F6;ppnade det och drog f&#x00F6;rsiktigt in den kalla luften i lungorna. &#x00C4;ven om vintern h&#x00F6;ll p&#x00E5; att sl&#x00E4;ppa sitt grepp och det mesta av sn&#x00F6;n hade sm&#x00E4;lt undan var morgnarna fortfarande svartm&#x00E5;lade. Molly huttrade och drog igen f&#x00F6;nstret.</p>

<p class="indent_j">I k&#x00F6;ket sl&#x00E4;ngde hon n&#x00E5;gra vedklampar i spisen och kaminen. Det k&#x00E4;ndes som om hon inte hade gjort n&#x00E5;got annat den sista tiden &#x00E4;n huggit ved och eldat upp den igen.</p>

If anyone knows how i can switch all the ASCII to normal UTF?
ål = å

Post by **Radu** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:42 pm

Hi Adam,

Just open the document in the Oxygen Text page, select all, right click, choose Source->Unescape selection and check the Unescape Characters check box.
Or if you want to automate this you could apply an XSLT stylesheet on it which just copies the XML content to the output.
An XSLT stylesheet which just copies the XML content has the following content:

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<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:output method="xml"/>

    <!-- Match document -->

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy" select="."/>

    </xsl:template>

    <!-- Deep copy template -->

    <xsl:template match="*|text()|@*" mode="copy">

        <xsl:copy>

            <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy" select="@*"/>

            <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy"/>

        </xsl:copy>

    </xsl:template>

    <!-- Handle default matching -->

    <xsl:template match="*"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

and it automatically expands character entities to characters.

Regards,
Radu

Post by **gardefjord** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:25 pm

Thanks Radu!
Loving Oxygen XML Editor so far...
One more question though, how do I handle "&" signs?
Example:

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<p class="indent_j">– Jag skall ta strid mot dig var du än dyker upp, Ragnar & Surteson, viskade hon och spegelbilden upprepade löftet or dagrant.</p>

I get this error:

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F [Xerces] The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.

Post by **Radu** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:31 pm

Hi Adam,

According to the XML standard specification the "&" character is not allowed in XML content and should always be escaped to &.
When unescaping the entire Text content the Unescape selection dialog has a checkbox which can be unchecked to leave &'s untouched.

Regards,
Radu

Post by **gardefjord** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:57 pm

Thank you very much! Problem totally solved.

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