retain unicode characters such as - in xml to xml tra

[sderrick]

I have some xml files that I need to run a xsl script on. The xml file has numerous(thousands) of unicode caracters specified. Some in that are in standard ascii and some not.

I added <xsl:output encoding="US-ASCII"/>

to my script which kept all but x002d, that being in the US ascii set.

How can i retain the thousand or so &#x002d; declarations when I run the script?

Also, when teh script runs the retained unicode charaters are output as decimal instead of hex. Anyway of not having it do that too as I have to go in and search and replace the 15 odd numbers it is munging. Not as important as the first request to retain the &#x002d; charcter but would be nice.

Scott

[sderrick]

I hacked it by changing all x002d chars to x202d and then the parser didn't replace it with a keuboard - minus sign...

Scott

[george]

With XSLT 2,0 you can use character maps:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">

    <xsl:character-map name="minus">

        <xsl:output-character character="&#x002d;" string="&#x002d;"/>

    </xsl:character-map>

    <xsl:output use-character-maps="minus"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <result>&#x002d;</result>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Best Regards,
George

[sderrick]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:character-map name="minus">
<xsl:output-character character="&#x002d;" string="&#x002d;"/>
</xsl:character-map>
<xsl:output use-character-maps="minus"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<result>&#x002d;</result>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thats a much better solution George. I will use it! thanks..

Scott