Yes, it is a simple encoding issue.  You have specified the encoding of your
input XML as ISO-8859-1, but you have not specified the encoding of your
output XML, so it defaults to UTF-8.  This encoding requires 2 (or more
bytes) for characters above Unicode 127.  Try this:

 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kennedy [mailto:MarkK@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: May 30, 2001 08:17
To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject:  Problem with XT and encoding?


Hello, all:

I'm having a problem with transformations using XT when using characters
that are outside of the standard ASCII 127, and I can't figure out why. In
the following examples, the » is character 187 in ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1). That
character (and seemingly any character greater than the standard 127) gets
turned into two characters, i.e. the » gets turned into »

I imagine this is some simple encoding issue, but I'm flummoxed. The only
other XSLT engine that I have available for testing is the MSXML in IE5, and
I don't get this result with it, though I don't really think that means
much.

I'm running the Win32 binary of XT on and NT machine.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Input XML File:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
 <test>»</test>

XSLT File:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:copy-of select="test"/>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Resulting XML File:
<test>»</test>

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