Hi all! Back in 2013, a question was asked about how to preserve entities (e.g., unicode and emojis) when transforming:
"My XSLT transformations have been successful for months until I ran across an XML file with Unicode characters (emoji characters). I need to preserve the Unicode but XSLT is converting it to HTML Entities. I thought that setting the encoding to UTF-8 would solve my problem but I'm still having issues." The answer was to look at the 'xalan:entities' serializer: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#outputprops I've switched from Xalan to Saxon to handle the conversion flawlessly, using a single line of code: System.setProperty( "javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory", "net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl" ); The downside is adding 6MB to encode emojis, which Xalan is already doing, just not quite as needed (�� is generated instead of 👍, for example). Is there an example showing how to use the xalan:entities serializer to preserve entities? Thank you!
