Entities and XSLT

[Iain]

Hey folks,

I've got a problem with an XML to HTML transformation that is now bugging the heck out of me. Basically, all of the entities used in my transformation style sheet are being rendered in my browser as double-byte weirdness (an accented 'A' followed by the desired character).

When I run the transformation on one server (stone-aged Solaris/SPARC with an equally stone-aged version of the libxml2/libxslt suite) it's perfect. When I run it on my Gentoo/SPARC box (with the very latest stable libxml2/libxslt builds) the entities render oddly.

I'm using utf-8 throughout. I've included the following line in my HTML source:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

My browser, Mozilla 1.5, is set up for utf-8.

My transformation is being driven by a Perl process using the
XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT APIs; when I parse my XSLT style sheet, I've even tried calling the expand_entities method. As I said, works fine on one machine with old s/w, but not my new one. All other aspects of the transformation work fine. I am stumped.

Anyone have any idea what is going on. Is there anything I can do to force the entities to come out as the same entities, not expanded character sequences?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks,
Iain.

 

[Johannes Koch]

Hey folks,

I've got a problem with an XML to HTML transformation that is now bugging the heck out of me. Basically, all of the entities used in my transformation style sheet are being rendered in my browser as double-byte weirdness (an accented 'A' followed by the desired character).

When I run the transformation on one server (stone-aged Solaris/SPARC with an equally stone-aged version of the libxml2/libxslt suite) it's perfect. When I run it on my Gentoo/SPARC box (with the very latest stable libxml2/libxslt builds) the entities render oddly.

This seems to be no XSLT problem but a web server configuration problem. What is the content-type header set by the HTTP server?

 

[Iain]

Hey folks,

I've got a problem with an XML to HTML transformation ...

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This seems to be no XSLT problem but a web server configuration problem. What is the content-type header set by the HTTP server?

Johannes,

If I was a girl; I'd have your children!!! ;-)

Thank you very much for this. With that info I managed to track-down to offending php.ini directive and correct it.

Usenet rocks!

Best wishes,
Iain.