Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Is xdml:unquote appropriate for handling accent characters?

[Christopher Hamlin]

I still think the goal isn't clear (to me).

What are you actually trying to deliver?  HTML, XML, XHTML?

Why do you want é instead of the Unicode character?

I'd go back to basics:  break the problem down to steps, define what's
needed at each step, and see where it goes wrong.


On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Kari Cowan <kco...@alm.com> wrote:

> I guess I could do a function with a series of replacements
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> >> fn:replace($Str,"&eacute;","&amp;eacute;")
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> I was hoping there was a better way.
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> *From: *<general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com> on behalf of Kari Cowan
> <kco...@alm.com>
> *Reply-To: *MarkLogic <general@developer.marklogic.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 10:53 AM
> *To: *MarkLogic <general@developer.marklogic.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Is xdml:unquote appropriate for
> handling accent characters?
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> We stored in the doc as:  Pok&eacute;mon
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> In xQuery I retrieve with
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> let $theTitle:=$doc//ir:HEADLINE/text()
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> That returns as:
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> Pokémon
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> How can I return it as Pok&eacute;mon instead of Pokémon?
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> *From: *<general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com> on behalf of
> Christopher Hamlin <cbham...@gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *MarkLogic <general@developer.marklogic.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 9:44 AM
> *To: *MarkLogic <general@developer.marklogic.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Is xdml:unquote appropriate for
> handling accent characters?
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> It's still unclear (to me) what is going on.  Here's some stuff I'd try:
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> Is the title in the ML db?  If so, it's been parsed and stored as UTF-8.
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> The query console can be complicated since it is goes through layers and
> is friendly in its output.
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> You can check the data by getting dumping out the xml to disk and
> inspecting via whatever you might use for that.  Just use xdmp:save.  Then
> you know how things are in the db.
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> Then, if you are going through an appserver, just do the request and store
> the result.  Again, check things out on disk.  Look at the headers returned
> and the payload.  Is the returned 'stuff' OK in an XML editor?
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> If that's OK, then what is parsing the return and choking, and why is it
> choking?
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