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I am using an XSL document to pretty print my RSS feed. However, special characters don't parse - they appear within the feed as and &
What line(s) do I need to specify in my RSS and XSL XML documents in order to get these to work? It's my understanding that & " < > should work by default but I need to do extra to work to map to a space.
What line(s) do I need to specify in my RSS and XSL XML documents in order to get these to work? It's my understanding that & " < > should work by default but I need to do extra to work to map to a space.
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I was reading up about that but I haven't tried it yet. What I'm most in need of is getting & to work, but from what I understand, it should by default? I'm using UTF-8 if that matters.
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Entities such as & and "e; will need to be specified into the dtd but you could always use the hex value so for a single quote you could use &39; and whitespace you could use this will always be transformed for you with no problems and saves you declaring the entities in the dtd.
sorry a space is and a single quote qould be
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Thank you for your help. I did some research and the following worked:
I replaced
[html]<xsl:value-of select="description" />[/html]
with
[html]<xsl:value-of select="description" disable-output-escaping="yes" />[/html]
I replaced
[html]<xsl:value-of select="description" />[/html]
with
[html]<xsl:value-of select="description" disable-output-escaping="yes" />[/html]
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