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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] JAXP and docbook-xsl Stylesheets
It is *very* frustrating how much incorrect information is posted on this topic, including the link I used as a reference. -- Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Adams" <dga@sgi.com> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> Cc: <fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:06 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] JAXP and docbook-xsl Stylesheets > > I am trying to use the JAXP Transformer in my Java code > to translate valid docbook article XML > into valid XHTML and FO XML. I am having a major problem with > the use of the non-breaking space code   in > the docbook-xsl stylesheets. The cause of the problem > is perfectly described under "5. Be careful with > nonbreaking spaces" on this web page: > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/java/news/javaxslt_0801.html > > To summarize, special characters in the docbook-xsl > stylesheets are transformed into the actual special characters > in the output of the transformation when the transformation > method is selected as "xml". So, for example, when > a transformation is done into FO XML, a table title in the > FO XML output contains "Table 1. xxxxx"; however, the spaces > after the word "Table" and after "1." are not the ASCII space > character, they are a single character code 160 > (a non-breaking space) which is not valid in an XML file. > >From everything I've read, it seems like this is the > correct behavior and other transformers such as xsltproc > replace the single character codes with ASCII characters > on their own as a post process. > > For XHTML, I set the output method to "html" instead of > "xml" for the Transformer. This generated in > the output instead of the single character code 160. This is > acceptable for me because browsers will display the output > of the transformation even though it is not technically valid XHTML. > > For FO XML, I don't see a work-around for the problem > other than hand-modifying the docbook-xsl stylesheets > to either replace all the special characters with a > valid ASCII character, or use the disable-output-escaping > XSL attribute (which looks very difficult and support for > this attribute is not a requirement of XSLT processors). > > Does anyone have any comments or suggestions? > > Thanks, > Don > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org
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