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AW: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into
- From: "Daniel S. Haischt" <sirabyss at gmx dot net>
- To: bobs at caldera dot com, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 22:54:15 +0200
- Subject: AW: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into
but saxon should support the unicode representation
of extended characters, shouldn't it?
and according to my unicode table   is equivalent to
regards
daniel s. haischt
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> Gesendet: Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 21:40
> An: Daniel S. Haischt; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Betreff: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into
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> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:31:56PM +0200, Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > this question might be likly off-topic...
> >
> > i am having a stylesheets that produces some
> > HTML output (taking a website xml file as input).
> >
> > sometimes i'll like to translate every whitespace
> > that occures in a plain text string into
> >
> > example:
> >
> > ----------8<-----------8<-----------8<----------
> > This is a foobar sentence.
> >
> > sould be translated into:
> >
> > This is a foobar sentence.
> > ---------->8----------->8----------->8----------
> >
> > i used the XSLT translate() function to accomplish
> > this.
> >
> > translate('This is a foobar sentence.', ' ', ' ')
> >
> > unfortunatly this does not produce the desired result.
> > so how is it possible to translate whitespaces into
> > ?
>
> Hmm, when I do this translation with Saxon, it works and
> produces in the output. When I do it with xsltproc,
> I just get plain spaces. When I use a different character
> such as ¡ I get an inverted ! as expected, This means
> the translation is working, it just isn't outputting
> for  .
>
> Further investigation shows that the Saxon processor
> outputs HTML entities for other characters, when they
> are defined. Saxon outputs ¡ for ¡, while
> xsltproc outputs the octal character in
> the character set.
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