Re: [docbook] invalid characters for ISO-8859-1 response

["Anthony Ettinger" <anthony@chovy.com>]

Ok, if that's the case, then the assumption is that xhtml outputted is
UTF-8 encoded? Seems odd that would be a requirement to be viewed
properly in a browser.

The   gets converted into its character at transformation time, right?




On 10/30/07, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
> I think if you look again, you will see that the nobreak spaces are not
> replacing spaces within your titles, but appear only before and after the
> chapter number.  The intention was to keep the chapter label, number, and
> first word of the chapter title together.
>
> These non-breaking spaces are defined in the gentext files for each
> language, such as common/en.xml.  These files are used for both the HTML
> and FO outputs.  You can customize them to use plain spaces if you like.
> You will see lines like this, where &#160; should be replaced with a
> regular space.
>
> <l:template name="chapter" text="Chapter&#160;%n.&#160;%t"/>
>
> See this reference for information on customizing the gentext strings
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomGentext.html
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Ettinger" <anthony@chovy.com>
> To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
> Cc: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [docbook] invalid characters for ISO-8859-1 response
>
>
> > That answers the question about how to change the output
> > encoding...but why is it inserting a non-breaking space
> > character...vs. just a regular old space (as is the input).
> >
> > Why does "Some Title" become "Some<nobr-space-char>Title"??
> >
> > It should just remain.
> >
> > I think i've traced it down to normalize-space(); but not sure:
> >
> > ./common/gentext.xsl
> >
> > <xsl:template match="*" mode="object.title.markup.textonly">
> >  <xsl:variable name="title">
> >    <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="object.title.markup"/>
> >  </xsl:variable>
> >  <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($title)"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/30/07, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> >> Hi Anthony,
> >> The special characters you are seeing are non-breaking spaces.
> >>
> >> As you discovered changing the input encoding has no effect on the
> >> output
> >> encoding, since they are independent of each other.
> >>
> >> Are you chunking your HTML output?  If so, then changing the output
> >> encoding is easy.  See this reference:
> >>
> >> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Chunking.html#ChunkEncoding
> >>
> >> If you are using single-file HTML output, then you have to set the
> >> encoding
> >> attribute in an xsl:output element in your stylesheet customization
> >> layer
> >> to change the output encoding.
> >>
> >> Bob Stayton
> >> Sagehill Enterprises
> >> DocBook Consulting
> >> bobs@sagehill.net
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Anthony Ettinger" <anthony@chovy.com>
> >> To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:49 PM
> >> Subject: [docbook] invalid characters for ISO-8859-1 response
> >>
> >>
> >> > If I do the docbook -> xhtml transformation (v 4.4) I get invalid
> >> > characters for the chapter numbers in the output. If I change the
> >> > character encoding in the browser view from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 they
> >> > look ok.
> >> >
> >> > I have to use ISO-8859-1 for now, because that's what the server sends
> >> > the response as...also, I'm unclear why there are special characters
> >> > at all in the output just to display chapter numbers:
> >> >
> >> > output:
> >> > <h2 class="title"><a id="reports"></a>Chapter?| 3.?| Reports</h2>
> >> >
> >> > Note the "Chapter?|3.?|Reports" (this is from vim when I view the
> >> > source directly, I get the "A-hat" character when viewing source in
> >> > the browser.
> >> >
> >> > How should I fix this problem, all I really need is a space..no
> >> > special character to represent "Chapter 3. Reports" should be needed
> >> > here.
> >> >
> >> > I tried changing the xml charset in the xml declaration, but that
> >> > didn't do anything.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Anthony Ettinger
> >> > Ph: 408-656-2473
> >> > var (bonita, farley) = new Dog;
> >> > farley.barks("very loud");
> >> > bonita.barks("at strangers");
> >> >
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> >> >
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Anthony Ettinger
> > Ph: 408-656-2473
> > var (bonita, farley) = new Dog;
> > farley.barks("very loud");
> > bonita.barks("at strangers");
> >
> > http://chovy.dyndns.org/resume/
> > http://utuxia.com/consulting
> >
> >
>
>
>


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Anthony Ettinger
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bonita.barks("at strangers");

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