Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator not displaying emdash
From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:16:54 +0100
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David Carlisle wrote:
>
> > Netscape should accept — instead, but you have no way of
> > forcing your XSLT processor to serialize em dash characters that way.
>
> If I wasn't committed to upholding the virtues of pure side effect free
> coding on this list, I'd mention that we routinely pass the output of
> HTML producing stylesheets through a sed script which replaces &ndash
> &mdash etc by their decimal numeric equivalents, for the sake of
> netscape.
A compromise might be --if you are using an open source XSLT processor--
to modify the HTML output method (output methods are usually
straightforward pieces of code that serialize a DOM tree or a bunch of
SAX events).
Eric
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