XSL Help

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:34 pm

I'm doing a lot with XSL transformations now and have run into several potentially huge problems. First, it seems to not recognize and "non-english" characters, I get a parser error when using the MSXML parser. the second is the inability to use required HTML characters in an XSL template.

I'm transforming to HTML, and the & is a reserved character so that means that I cannot include &nbsp and friends in the stylesheet (though they can be in the XML as long as they're escaped). No use of the &* characters makes it really hard to write HTML transformation templates.

Perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way all together. Hopefully someone with some experience in XML/XSL can help out here..

these are super simplified examples of what I'm doing, but you get the idea I hope.

Example of how I'm doing the XSL stylesheet :

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="Example">
<html>
<head>
<title>Invoice</title>
</head>
<body>

<xsl:value-of select="First_Value"/>

<br />

<xsl:value-of select="Second_Value"/>

</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

An example of the XML that might be associated with it :

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<Example>

	<First_Value>Test test test 1</First_Value>
	<Second_Value>Test test test 2</Second_Value>
	
</Example>

guido · Post by **guido** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:13 am

The non-English characters should be easy to fix: add an

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encoding="ISO-8859-1"

attribute to the XML tag.

If generating HTML text-like stuff, I recommend using the <xsl:text> tag; of course one has to quote it, so

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&nbsp;

will transform to

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&nbsp;

but it should work and is only ugly, not difficult.

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:52 pm

guido wrote:If generating HTML text-like stuff, I recommend using the <xsl:text> tag; of course one has to quote it, so
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&nbsp;
will transform to
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&nbsp;
but it should work and is only ugly, not difficult.

Can you show me an example of how you're using the <xsl:text> tag? Are you using it to output the HTML tags as well?

MANY thanks for the encoding tip!

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:09 pm

Resurrecting this to ask for some more help.. It seems using :

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

Doesn't help the display of some characters at all (I'm not sure what the chatacters are as they can't be displayed in a text editor on my version of Windows either)..

Any other hints?