How to emit entities instead of UTF-8? - XSL - XML

#1 (**permalink**) 10-17-2008, 08:25 AM

I have an svg file with lots of 16 bit unicode Chinese characters expressed
with XML entities.

I'm trying to write an XSL to extract these and it is working.
Unfortunately, it is generating UTF-8 and that is ugly. Is there a way to
make it (re)generate XML entities which display nicely in brain damaged
editors?

(I'm using emacs for windows and it does not seem to have the fonts to
display chinese in UTF-8. I wonder if I upgraded from XP to Vista if I the
courier font would then have chinese? Arial Unicode MS is a font that I do
have that does have chinese but switching to it does not seem to help. It
seems to display a few characters correctly).

Thanks,
Siegfried

#2 (**permalink**) 10-17-2008, 11:56 AM

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> I have an svg file with lots of 16 bit unicode Chinese characters expressed
> with XML entities.
>
> I'm trying to write an XSL to extract these and it is working.
> Unfortunately, it is generating UTF-8 and that is ugly. Is there a way to
> make it (re)generate XML entities which display nicely in brain damaged
> editors?

You could try
<xsl

utput encoding="US-ASCII"/>
or perhaps
<xsl

utput encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
In the case of an XSLT 2.0 processor like Saxon the software is then
required to output any characters outside of that encoding as character
references (as long as that is allowed e.g. in element or attribute
content).

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-ser.../#XML_ENCODING

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