Hi Joerg, Thanks for your reply. It gave clearer understanding of special character encoding.
My problem was that I have to deliver a large set of automated xml files to a client with a very shaky (knowledge of) DTD's, basically just as myself... So I thought that encoding like é would be the right way to go. I already understood that the number reference should be ok from a DTD point of view, I expect problems with my client though. I didn't know that é was valid UTF-8: but that explains alot. I've changed the encoding to ASCII, so now cocoon always encodes special characters with number references: that should be an defendable standpoint. Kind regards, Sanne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joerg Heinicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:49 PM Subject: Re: Don't decode (or transform) my entities! > Hello Sanne, > > you have no influence how the output is serialized, but that's no > problem in general. é is only another representation of the > relating number reference. It should be serialized to é or é > The advantage of a number reference is the independence on any DTD. So > the number reference is to prefer I think - somebody can correct me > here. If the encoding supports the character directly (like UTF-8) it's > also allowed to write é directly (so not using any reference). > > What exactly problem do you have with it? For general questions you can > also read at http://www.unicode.org/. > > Joerg > > Sanne de Roever wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got an xml file with entities like é (declared in a dtd) and > > others. > > If I output this file after an xsl identity transformation using the xml > > serializer cocoon gives me a decoded character like say î, > > or a translation of the character like ᇗ > > > > But I don't want that, I want it the way it came in: é! > > > > Does anybody how to accomplish this? > > > > Sanne > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
