Encoding problem

[Rutger Claes]

I have a dom tree representing the content of a html document. In the xml I
use € as the euro sign. I think I need to do this to be able to use
xsl transformations . After the xsl transformation I use a small SAX
parser. But my € gets converted to: â,¬50.
I've tried passing xml_parser_crea te() 'UTF-8' and '' (hint from php.net)
but it only makes things worse ( ? or squares are displayed ).
How do i have to encode characters to be able to pass them to SAX. Is there
a build in function or do I use str_replace()?

Rutger Claes
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[Jason Morehouse]

Re: Encoding problem

Rutger Claes wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a dom tree representing the content of a html document. In the xml I
> use € as the euro sign. I think I need to do this to be able to use
> xsl transformations . After the xsl transformation I use a small SAX
> parser. But my € gets converted to: â,¬50.
> I've tried passing xml_parser_crea te() 'UTF-8' and '' (hint from php.net)
> but it only makes things worse ( ? or squares are displayed ).
> How do i have to encode characters to be able to pass them to SAX. Is there
> a build in function or do I use str_replace()?
>
> Rutger Claes[/color]

Why not just use € ?

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[Daniel Tryba]

Re: Encoding problem

Jason Morehouse <jm@rm.spam-vendorama.com> wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> I have a dom tree representing the content of a html document. In the xml I
>> use &#x20AC; as the euro sign.[/color]
>
> Why not just use &euro; ?
>[/color]

That is not one of the 5 default character entities in XML. It's only
valid when defined in a DTD.

No direct answer to the OPs question, but if the encoding of the XML is
either iso-8859-15 or UTF-x there is no need to encode the EUR symbol.

[Rutger Claes]

Re: Encoding problem

Daniel Tryba wrote:
[color=blue]
> Jason Morehouse <jm@rm.spam-vendorama.com> wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> I have a dom tree representing the content of a html document. In the
>>> xml I use &#x20AC; as the euro sign.[/color]
>>
>> Why not just use &euro; ?
>>[/color]
>
> That is not one of the 5 default character entities in XML. It's only
> valid when defined in a DTD.
>
> No direct answer to the OPs question, but if the encoding of the XML is
> either iso-8859-15 or UTF-x there is no need to encode the EUR symbol.[/color]

It's not really important what encoding I will use.  It's just that if I
don't use &#x20AC; I get errors from my XSL transformation.
I just need a way to get through XSL and then through SAX.  If I can use the
same symbol, great.  If I have to do a str_replace then I just need to know
from &#x20AC; to what...

Can I use a <?xml encoding="" ?> or something in my XSL transformation so
that I can use another symbol then &#x20AC; that is also usable in SAX.

 Thanks for the answers, sorry for the english
 
  Rutger Claes
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