DOCBOOK: Re: Spanish Text

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Jamie Smedsmo <jsmedsmo@gis.umn.edu> was heard to say:
| I just recieved a Docbook XML document in Spanish.  I'm trying to
| transform the document to HTML with SAXON, as I do with the English
| documents, but it has trouble with the extended ascii characters as
| follows:
|
| <.xml c:/docbook/docbook-xsl/html/mdp.xsl > getstarted-howto.html
| Error at byte 248 of
| file:/C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/mapserver_docs/getstarted-howto_es.xml:
|   Error reported by XML parser: bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-8
| sequence (code: 0x74)
| Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported
|
| I know that I could have the author replace all the offending
| characters with entity references (&aacute;), but I don't want to do
| this unless it's necessary.  Is there any alternative?

Yes, the document is probably in ISO Latin 1, try adding an explicit
encoding declaration to the top of the file:

  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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