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> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Tomsic
> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 5:30 PM
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  weird character B , how to make it disappear?
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get a raquo character to appear, but I'm
> getting a  B before it.
> How do I get rid of this B  ??
> 
> I've got the following for my xsl file at the top:
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='US-ASCII'?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> 	<!ENTITY raquo 	"&#x000BB;">
> 	<!ENTITY sep 	" ">
> ]>

You might try removing one of the zeroes: &#x00BB;
I don't know whether that should make a difference,
but I think for Unicode, there are not supposed to be
more than four digits.

> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 	<xsl:output method="html" encoding="US-ASCII"/>
> 
> then when I want the raquo to appear, my usage is:
> 
> &sep;&raquo;&sep;
> 
> but thru the browser, I'm getting as output:
> 
> B;
> 
> how do I make that B disappear?
> I've also tried to change the encoding to iso-8859-1,
> and the entity reference to &x187; but with no
> success.  any help greatly appreciated.

I think what you wanted was &#187; (decimal, not hex).
&x187; isn't valid XML syntax anyway.

> 
> thanks
> Paul
> 
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