Microsoft XML - Special characters not being interpreted

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Special characters not being interpreted

RFB

2004-01-23, 5:34 pm

Hi. I have XML with CDATA that contain special characters in escaped format
(ie, ç). I use XSL to create an OPTION for each node, and even though I
have tried setting disable-output-escaping to both 'yes' and 'no', it still
prints the escape codes, not the characters.

Please help.

Thanks.

Julian F. Reschke

2004-01-23, 7:31 pm

RFB wrote:

quote:

> Hi. I have XML with CDATA that contain special characters in escaped format
> (ie, ç). I use XSL to create an OPTION for each node, and even though I
> have tried setting disable-output-escaping to both 'yes' and 'no', it still
> prints the escape codes, not the characters.

Disable-output-escaping has nothing to do with character encoding.

Short answer: there's no way to preserve encoding through XSLT, as XSLT
won't even know the original format.

BTW: it shouldn't matter. If it does, something else is broken.

Julian

Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]

2004-01-26, 3:28 am

Hi Joe Hoggood,

We have reviewed your post. We will do some research on your issue. We will
reply to you ASAP.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
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MSFT

2004-01-27, 8:29 am

Hello,

Thank you for using the community. I am Luke and I am review this issue
currently. As I understand, you have some special charactors like "ç"
in XML file. When you perform trasform with xsl, you found
disable-output-escaping didn't conver the charactor.

Regarding the issue, I agree with Julian, disable-output-escaping only
convert esscaped charactor defined in XML like "<" and ">". It will leave
"ç" in original format.

Luke
Microsoft Online Support

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