Re: [xslt] Use character entities to represent non-ASCII characters

[Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer aevum de>]

On 19/08/2022 19:41, Paul Kinnucan via xslt wrote:
> I am trying to use libxslt to transform an XML file that contains non-ASCII 
> characters to an HTML file. Other xslt processors, such as JAXP and Xalan, 
> replace non-ASCII characters with their character entity equivalents, e.g., £ 
> -> £ However, libxslt simply outputs the UTF-8 rendition of the 
> non-ASCII character.
>
> Is there a way to get libxslt to output the equivalent character entity instead?

If the output encoding is UTF-8, there's no reason not to output non-ASCII 
characters as UTF-8 (unless you're talking about non-ASCII characters in URI 
attribute values). Setting the output encoding to "HTML" should do what you want:

   <xsl:output encoding="HTML" .../>

This is non-standard, though. You can also set the output encoding to "ASCII", 
but this will produce numeric character references like "&#163;".

Nick