AW: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into  

but saxon should support the unicode representation
of extended characters, shouldn't it?

and according to my unicode table   is equivalent to
 

regards

daniel s. haischt
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> Betreff: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into
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> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:31:56PM +0200, Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > this question might be likly off-topic...
> > 
> > i am having a stylesheets that produces some
> > HTML output (taking a website xml file as input).
> > 
> > sometimes i'll like to translate every whitespace
> > that occures in a plain text string into  
> > 
> > example:
> > 
> > ----------8<-----------8<-----------8<----------
> >  This is a foobar sentence.
> > 
> > sould be translated into:
> > 
> >  This&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;foobar&nbsp;sentence.
> > ---------->8----------->8----------->8----------
> > 
> > i used the XSLT translate() function to accomplish
> > this.
> > 
> >  translate('This is a foobar sentence.', ' ', '&#160;')
> > 
> > unfortunatly this does not produce the desired result.
> > so how is it possible to translate whitespaces into
> > &nbsp;?
> 
> Hmm, when I do this translation with Saxon, it works and
> produces &nbsp; in the output.  When I do it with xsltproc,
> I just get plain spaces.  When I use a different character
> such as &#161; I get an inverted ! as expected, This means
> the translation is working, it just isn't outputting &nbsp;
> for &#160;.
> 
> Further investigation shows that the Saxon processor
> outputs HTML entities for other characters, when they
> are defined. Saxon outputs &iexcl; for &#161;, while
> xsltproc outputs the octal character in
> the character set.  
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