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Subject: AW: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into
but if i am using ... translate('This is a foobar sentence.', ' ', ' ') ... with saxon i am getting the following result ... ThisA isA aA foobarA sentence. which saxon version are you refering to? regards daniel s. haischt -- > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: bobs@caldera.com [mailto:bobs@caldera.com] > Gesendet: Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 23:58 > An: Daniel S. Haischt; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > Betreff: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into > > > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: > > but saxon should support the unicode representation > > of extended characters, shouldn't it? > > > > and according to my unicode table   is equivalent to > > > > Perhaps I wasn't clear. Saxon does indeed > produce HTML output from   input. > It is xsltproc that does not. > > Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street > Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 > Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 > email: bobs@caldera.com > > > > > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > > > Von: bobs@caldera.com [mailto:bobs@caldera.com] > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > -- > > > > > > Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street > > > Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > > > Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 > > > Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 > > > email: bobs@caldera.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street > Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 > Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 > email: bobs@caldera.com > > >
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