XSLT 2.0 suggestion

I posted the following yesterday to the XSL list at Mulberry Technologies. 
Jeni Tennison suggested in her reply that I follow-up to your email 
address, in case you find the information useful.  Her comment was:

"There's been a recent suggestion on xsl-editors@w3.org that a similar 
functionality to saxon:character-representation be offered in XSLT 2.0 - 
you might want to post this example there to demonstrate another use case."

Here's my original post, with a few more details added:

I'm having trouble getting upper ASCII chars to output the way I need them 
to.  (I've pared down my examples below to just the relevant info.)  The 
XML data looks like the following :

     <param name="input1">
     &#163;&#169;&#174;&#196;&#203;&#211;&#225;&#246;&#255;.DTD
     </param>

I output two versions of this data to two different files. The first is a 
simple config file of URLs, created with the output method set to TEXT and 
the following XSL:

     <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
     <xsl:text>="</xsl:text>
     <xsl:value-of select="string($VALUE)"/>
     <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>

This results in the following in my first config file, which is exactly 
what I want:

     input1="£©®ÄËÓáöÿ.DTD"

The second file is an SHTML page, created with the output method set to 
"HTML" and the following XSL:

     <xsl:element name="param">
         <xsl:attribute name="name">
             <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
         </xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:attribute name="value">
             <xsl:value-of select="."/>
         </xsl:attribute>
     </xsl:element>

I get the following in the file:

     <param name="input1"
     value="&pound;&copy;&reg;&Auml;&Euml;&Oacute;&aacute;&ouml;&yuml;.DTD">

What I want, however, is:

    <param name="input1" value="£©®ÄËÓáöÿ.DTD">

Is there a way to achieve this? I need this functionality because I'm 
building server-side include pages from an XML configuration file.  The 
parameters for the <SERVLET> block (e.g. <param name="input1" 
value="£©®ÄËÓáöÿ.DTD">) need to be able to contain both ASCII and "upper 
ASCII" characters.  value="£" is completely different data for the SSI 
parser than value="&pound;".

Thanks.

Jay

-- Jay Burgess
    Digital Archaeology Corporation
    Delano Technology Analytics Division
    mailto:jburgess@delanotech.com
    (913) 438-9444 x154

Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2002 18:34:37 UTC