extra characters being added to output 1

[miraclemaker]

Hi guys, I'm translating some XML with XSL, and have come across the following problem:

here's a chunk of my XML:

<long_description>
Heavy Weapon Deluxe est un jeu d’arcade o&ugrave; se d&eacute;cha&icirc;ne une action tremp&eacute;e d’adr&eacute;naline, &agrave; d&eacute;roulement lat&eacute;ral, sur le th&egrave;me du tir – dans le ...
</long_description>

Here's my XSL for that chunk:

  <xsl:template match="long_description">
    <p>
      <xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes" />
    </p>
  </xsl:template>

unfortunately this resutls in the following translated document:

Heavy Weapon Deluxe est un jeu dÂ’arcade où se déchaîne une action trempée dÂ’adrénaline, à déroulement latéral, sur le thème du tir – dans le

- you can see the 'Â' character is being added before secial characters like the quote used and the hyphen. Is it becuase these are double-byte characters outside of the standard ascii range? Any idea how to prevent the extra character from being added?

I'm using PHP / Sablotron to combine my XML and XSL.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[JontyMC]

Try changing the encoding in your xml declaration.

Jon

"Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses.

 

[miraclemaker]

i don't think this is to do with encoding. if I actually look in the source of the transformed document I can see the extra character in there:

dÂ’arcade

- it's not in the original XML document.

 

[miraclemaker]

My mistake. It was an encoding problem. I fixed it by adding this line to my XSL:

<xslutput encoding="iso-8859-1"/>

 

[chiph]

Yup. Default encoding in XML is UTF-8, which when displayed almost always comes up with the accented capital letter A.

Chip H.


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