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Subject: Re: [docbook] invalid characters for ISO-8859-1 response
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   should be replaced with a > regular space. > > <l:template name="chapter" text="Chapter %n. %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"); > >> > > >> > http://chovy.dyndns.org/resume/ > >> > http://utuxia.com/consulting > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-help@lists.oasis-open.org > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > -- 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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