Databases
StackOverflow2013
Postsdbo
POHTML output via an XSL transform involving special characters
 

Note that there are some explanatory texts on larger screens.

plurals
  1. POHTML output via an XSL transform involving special characters
    primarykey
    data
    text
    <p>I am having trouble transforming particular characters from an XML feed into XHTML.</p> <p>I am using the following example to demonstrate the problem.</p> <p>Here is my XML file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;paragraph&gt;some text including the –, ã and ’ characters&lt;/paragraph&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is the XSLT I am applying:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt; &lt;xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" /&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="paragraph"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is the resultant XHTML:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;p&gt;some text including the –, ã and ’ characters&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>The characters from the original XML are being replaced with new ones.</p> <p>Firstly I want to check whether there is something wrong with my encoding which causes this issue?</p> <p>Am I supposed to do something using entities if I want to map the special characters to display correctly in XHTML? If so how do I use these within an XSLT and do I need to know every single possible value that could be in my XML feed in advance?</p>
    singulars
    1. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. PTQuestion
    1. UStentonipete
    1. UStentonipete
    plurals
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    2. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. COThe resulting XHTML looks a lot like a UTF-8 file that was opened with an editor that expected ISO-8859-1 or similar 8-bit format (the doubled characters give it away). Take a look at it using a hex dump, and I bet that you'll see that the transform worked as expected.
      singulars
      1. POHTML output via an XSL transform involving special characters
      1. USkdgregory
 

Querying!

 
Guidance
A row detail

Detail views are divided into sections. All the information in the data section comes from columns in the selected row. The other sections display data from other, related rows.

Related data can be related in a to-one or a to-many fashion. Captions of data related in a to-many fashion link to a list view showing a filtered view of the table.

Try moving around until you find a non-empty to-many entry and click on the label to get to one. You can move back to the root by clicking on the database name in the header.

SQuiL has stopped working due to an internal error.

If you are curious you may find further information in the browser console, which is accessible through the devtools (F12).

Reload