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Re: Special Characters in XML?
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>
- To: Brian Burridge <brian at burridge dot net>
- Cc: DocBookApps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 22:44:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Special Characters in XML?
- References: <1046875379.32587.7.camel@mi6.local>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:43:03AM -0500, Brian Burridge wrote:
> I used the demo of upCast to convert some RTFs to DocBook (it worked
> great by the way!). However, it converted some of the characters from
> this   to their equivelant, which then failed out as I continued
> the process to convert to FO and then PDF.
To their equivalent what?
> I changed the encoding to US-ASCII in the stylesheet that produces the
> FO, so that it remained   in the FO file, however, when I try to go
> to PDF, I get an [ERROR] null, and the error is "
> org.apache.fop.fo.PropertyManager.getTextDecoration(PropertyManager.java:328)".
>
> So I'm guessing that Apache FOP can't figure out how to go convert those
> special characters.
FOP has no trouble converting   in my tests
(versions 0.20.4 and 0.20.5rc2).
Perhaps this error is coming from something else?
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