Hi Nick,
Thanks for the quick response.
Specifying HTML as the output type does not cause libxslt to generate ASCII
with character entities for non-ASCII characters.
I am porting an existing XML-based app from JAXP to libxslt. The app's existing
tests expect character entities because that is what JAXP produces for HTML
output. I was hoping to avoid updating the tests for libxslt.
Regards,
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Wellnhofer <wellnho...@aevum.de>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 9:08 AM
To: The Gnome XSLT library mailing-list <xslt@gnome.org>
Cc: Paul Kinnucan <pa...@mathworks.com>
Subject: Re: [xslt] Use character entities to represent non-ASCII characters
On 19/08/2022 19:41, Paul Kinnucan via xslt wrote:
> I am trying to use libxslt to transform an XML file that contains
> non-ASCII characters to an HTML file. Other xslt processors, such as
> JAXP and Xalan, replace non-ASCII characters with their character
> entity equivalents, e.g., £
> -> £ However, libxslt simply outputs the UTF-8 rendition of the
> non-ASCII character.
>
> Is there a way to get libxslt to output the equivalent character entity
> instead?
If the output encoding is UTF-8, there's no reason not to output non-ASCII
characters as UTF-8 (unless you're talking about non-ASCII characters in URI
attribute values). Setting the output encoding to "HTML" should do what you
want:
<xsl:output encoding="HTML" .../>
This is non-standard, though. You can also set the output encoding to "ASCII",
but this will produce numeric character references like "£".
Nick
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