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At 2003-08-20 13:41 +0100, Matt Trimmer wrote:
The XML source comes from MS Access. It would seem that Access uses a 2019 (a right single quotation) and not an real apostrophe (0027). So although I do have control over the input, I can't seem to change it. Therefore, you don't have control over the input. It's strange I transformed this data into various XML formats (encoded to ISO) but they do not give me a problem. However I did use the cdata elements command which I guess avoided the issue? No ... CDATA is only syntactic sugar ... if you received no errors then obviously you were not including any characters outside of the ISO character set. Note that using a numeric character reference *is* allowed in an XML document for a character not in the document's character set, because there are no invalid characters in the formation of the character reference. I am trying to understand your translate function. http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116#function-translate My XSL is quite simple (sample below) Everywhere where you have <xsl:value-of select="x"/> ... use ... <xsl:value-of select="translate(x,'’',"'")"/> This is what I illustrated in my example to you. , the only challenge is that the Description field Why not do it for *every* field to protect your stylesheet from future failures related to this character? I hope this helps. ............... Ken
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