Re: [xsl] Escaping/converting special characters

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>]

At 02:45 29-10-2001, Ross Kendall wrote:
>On some files I get special characters (eg '£') which cause parse errors
>when trying to transform my (not quite valid) XML.  What I need to know is
>how can easily convert these special characters to entities or escape them
>with CDATA tags in such a manner that I can transform them to valid WML.  Is
>it a stupid idea to put all the data in CDATA tags?  Otherwise, how will I
>know which characters are going to need escaping.

It sounds like the incoming files are in ISO 8859-1 encoding (Latin-1).  If 
so, then tell your Perl script to output an encoding parameter in the XML 
declaration, or follow "cutlass"'s suggestion and turn everything above 
character 127 into a numeric character reference.  Either should be pretty 
easy to do in Perl.

-Chris
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