Re: [docbook-apps] JAXP and docbook-xsl Stylesheets

["Don Adams" <dga@sgi.com>]

It is *very* frustrating how much incorrect
information is posted on this topic,
including the link I used as a reference.

--
Don


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From: "Don Adams" <dga@sgi.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
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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 &#160; 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 &nbsp; 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
> 
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