Transformation Question

[andrew_forstie@choicehotels.com]

I am using xsltproc (the default install in Fedora) to transform my docbook article to HTML. I noticed in the source code of the HTML file it puts  and what appears to be a pipe in some places.

 

For example I am using the <literallayout> element as shown below:

<literallayout>&lt;hotel-room code="NSQ" occupancy="5" max-occupancy="5" non-smoking="yes" suite="yes"&gt;
         &lt;bed type="queen" count="1"/&gt;
         &lt;bed type="twin" count="3"/&gt;</literallayout>

 

The source code of the HTML file for this section after the transformation:

<div class="literallayout"><p>&lt;hotel-roomÂ| code="NSQ"Â| occupancy="5"Â| max-occupancy="5"Â| non-smoking="yes"Â| suite="yes"&gt;<br />
Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| &lt;bedÂ| type="queen"Â| count="1"/&gt;<br />
Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| Â| &lt;bedÂ| type="twin"Â| count="3"/&gt;</p></div>

 

Then of course, in a browser it would display as it looks below:

<hotel-room code="NSQ" occupancy="5" max-occupancy="5" non-smoking="yes" suite="yes">
         <bed type="queen" count="1"/>
         <bed type="twin" count="3"/>

 

I get this same behavior in other places as well (e.g. table titles), but this example has the most occurences.

 

At this point I am not sure it this is caused by xsltproc, the encoding, or some other factor that I am overlooking. Has anyone run across this before? Any ideas on how to fix this?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Andy