Elizabeth S.,
I think you meant to write the following XSL:

<xsl:output method="text" encoding="ascii"/>

There is no value 'html' for the method attribute.

Mike Ferrando
Library of Congress
Washington, DC


--- Elizabeth Shaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Okay in the example I gave you I assumed that you wanted your
> character
> set in UTF-8. The XSLT processor resolved character entities ot
> their
> UTF-8 representations.
>
> That is only a problem if you can't read UTF-8 with your software.
> If
> you must use the character entities then you should change your
> character set for the output to ascii or latin-1.
>
> So the beginning of your document should look like this
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
>
> <!ENTITY nbsp ' '>
>
> ]>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="ascii"/>
>
> This then retains the character entities in the output.
>
> There is no reason to use disable output in this case.
>
>  From a purely technical perspective this is the right way to do
> this
> and the others are kluges.
>
>
> As to hte five default entities they are
> amp
> lt
> gt
> quot
> apos
>
> Each of these have special meaning to processors of XML.
> The lt sign < is the beginning of the tag
> the gt >indicates the end of the tag
> the amp & indicates the beginning of an entity (character or
> general)
> the quot " and  apos ' are both used to encapsulate the values of
> attributes.
> So XML provides entities to "escape" these characters.
>
> THe default character set for XML (if you do not state otherwise)
> is
> UTF-8. So when processing you need to keep in mind that they are
> going
> to resolve entities by default to the UTF-8 character.
> Any character entity other than the above 5 can be managed by the
> method
> above.
>
> Liz Shaw
>
>
>
>
> Steven Bernstein wrote:
> > Dear EJ,
> >
> >        Very good answer. Am curious though, what are the 5
> default
> > entities in XML?      Steve Bernstein
> >
> >
> >>>>[log in to unmask] 7/7/2004 7:19:27 PM >>>
> >>>
> > Since &nbsp; is not one of the 5 default entities in XML you need
> to
> > include an entity declaration at the top of your styelsheet.
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> >
> > <!ENTITY nbsp ' '>
> >
> > ]>
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> >
> >   .....and so on
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Liz Shaw
> > Aziza Technology Associates
> > http://www.azizatech.com
> >
> >
> >
> > Rees, John (NIH/NLM) wrote:
> >
> >>I'm having trouble getting the &nbsp: entity to output using XSL.
> >
> > From
> >
> >>XML.com, <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;</xsl:text>
> >>
> >>produces the angle bracket, but I get a parse error with &nbsp;.
> >
> > Perhaps
> >
> >>this is an XT issue?
> >>
> >>Any advice is appreciated.
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >>John P. Rees
> >>Associate Curator, Modern Manuscripts
> >>History of Medicine Division
> >>National Library of Medicine
> >>8600 Rockville Pike
> >>Bethesda, MD 20894
> >>
> >>Phone: 301.496.8953
> >>Fax: 301.402.7034
> >>
> >>
> >
>





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