Hi Raul,

we use Xalan in complete production-process. Because of umlauts in German
language äöü or the letter ß we often use ISO-8859-1 and we never had any
problems. I can only assume that the file, which you want to transform,
isn't correctly encoded. Because of your mail I tested the following:

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<test>äö©ü&#169;</test>

XSL

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="test">
        <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
äö©ü©

You can try it yourself. It will work! It's not a Xalan problem.

Joerg



> Hi:
>
> I downloaded the latest version of Xalan and tried to use it to process a
> barcode generator stylesheet that I downloaded from RenderX.  Xalan dies
> immediately because the it cannot read the encoding which is set to
> ISO-8859-1.  In addition, the author placed the copyright symbol which is
> not part of the ASCII set and Xalan also dies on this.  Saxon and XT do
not
> have this problem and are able to render the barcode.
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix this?  The barcodes need this encoding
> otherwise it cannot product the veritical lines.
>
> Thanks
>
> Raul


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