David Carlisle wrote:
> Jean-Fran=E7ois Michaud wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction
> > regarding this.
> >
> > I have unicode entities in an XML in hexadecimal format and I need to
> > be able to convert to ISO entities. Are there facilities available to
> > do this easily or do I have to parse all text and convert everything
> > manually? If thats what I have to do, is there any code already
> > available that would orient me in the right direction?
> >
> > This is my XML snippet.
> >
> > XML:
> >
> > <?xml version =3D "1.0" encoding =3D "UTF-8"?>
> > <root>
> >   <para>&#x212B; &#x00C5; &#x00E5; &#x00C3; &#x03B2; &#x03B5; &#x03F0;
> > &#x03BB; &#x03BC;</para>
> > </root>
> >
> > I basically need to something like this:
> >
> > SGML:
> >
> > <root>
> >   <para>&angst; &Aring; &aring; &Atilde; &b.beta; &b.epsi; &b.kappav;
> > &b.lambda; &b.mu;</para>
> > </root>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Regards
> > Jeff
> >
>
>
> one way is to use xslt2 character maps, if I save your file as ent.xml,
> saxon8 gives the following output if run with the stylesheet at the end
> it's not quite the result you asked for but I think the bold greek
> should map to the characters in plane1 so the grk3 entity names are used
> rather than grk4. (It would be easy for you to take a local copy and
> change that though)
>
> David
>
> $ saxon8 ent.xml ent.xsl
> <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"UTF-8"?><root>
>    <para>&angst; &Aring; &aring; &Atilde; &beta; &epsiv; &kappav;
> &lambda; &mu;</para>
> </root>
>
>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version=3D"2.0"
> 		xmlns:xsl=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
>   <xsl:import
> href=3D"http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso9573-2003/iso9573-2003map.xsl"=
/>
> <xsl:output use-character-maps=3D"iso9573-2003"/>
> <xsl:template match=3D"/">
>    <xsl:copy-of select=3D"/"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

Wow! More than I could ever ask for. This is exactly the kind of stuff
I was looking for. Thank you much for your help!! I will look into this
more closely.

Warm regards
Jean-Francois Michaud