On 2014-03-24 13:58, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Yes, XSL is XML. Thought so - thanks for confirming.
> The parser converts &#*; to Unicode characters when > reading. AFAIR some xsl parsers like xsltproc do the same. > If you want xslt to output ' ' you can use ' ' Thanks for that info, it helped find the problem (though no solution yet). Tha character isn't actully a unicode character, it is simply a "no-break space" character at position $A0 in the ASCII chart. Using hex value notation, instead of the more popular decimal notation when escaped. =======[ charmap details ]============ U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE UTF-8: 0xC2 0xA0 UTF-16: 0x00A0 C octal escaped UTF-8: \302\240 XML decimal entity:   ========================= But I now see what happened. When I enabled "show hidden characters" like spaces and tabs in my editor, I noticed that the no-break space character is still there, but in the resaved output file it is simply not escaped any more. How is the fcl-xml package supposed to handle escaped characters which will form part of the data the XSL will generate? Is fcl-xml supposed to write them back as escaped characters, or as an normal un-escaped character? I tried using the decimal notation too:   And that produced the same result as the original. Note: When we process a XML file with our XSL file, we want he resulting output to have a no-break character - we don't what to display the text '&#a0;' - which I think is what your suggestion with the & will produce. To put this in context, in case my original XSL snippet wasn't clear. That snippet generates a date string in the format 'dd MMM yyyy' and the spaces between those elements are not normal spaces, but no-break spaces, so that whole text stays together (and wouldn't wordwrap in the middle). The current resaved XSL file still works, but not being able to physically see the no-break space characters could cause us problems months down the line when we re-edit those files. Hence the reason they were escaped (to make them clearly visible to the developer). Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal