XSL Transformation is failing to convert XML with special characters

[shekar rakju]

Hi,


XSL Transformation is failing to convert XML with special characters.

My application is on Websphere 4.0 on AIX.

My XML element and data looks like below.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<MAIN>
<SUMMARY>The IBM 6645 NetVista S40 Series of personal systems is designed to be the central point for all of your computing needs. Model Abstract 6645-P1A:� The IBM 6645 Model P1A NetVista S40 Series has a 133/733MHz Pentium III processor, 256KB cache, 128MB-100MHz memory, Windows 2000 software preload,
</SUMMARY>
</MAIN>

It has special characters in following words "Abstract 6645-P1A:� " in SUMMARY element.


My XSL looks like below.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<xsl utput method="html" indent="yes" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
<xsl:stylesheet>
<xsl:template match="MAIN">
<xsl:value-of select="HitlistCount"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I am using xalan and xerces combination to transform XML to HTML ie: using XERCES java transformation API. My application is a servlet application.


My java code looks like below :

PrintWriter out =response.getWriter();
OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat("xhtml", "ISO-8859-1", true);
format.setPreserveSpace(true);
format.setDoctype(
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN",
"http://www.ibm.com/data/dtd/v11/ibmxhtml1-transitional.dtd");
format.setOmitXMLDeclaration(true);
SerializerFactory factory = SerializerFactory.getSerializerFactory("xml");
Serializer serializer = factory.makeSerializer(out, format);
serializer.setOutputFormat(format);
XSLTProcessor xsltProc = XSLTProcessorFactory.getProcessor();

xsltProc.process(
new XSLTInputSource("xmlFile"),
new XSLTInputSource("xslFile"),
new XSLTResultTarget(out));


I am getting the following exception during the transformation:

showHTML : caught Exception = [ javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: SAX Exception
at org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.error(XSLTEngineImpl.java:1542)
at org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.error(XSLTEngineImpl.java:1507)
at org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.process(XSLTEngineImpl.java:531)


I am able to view the XML properly on my local adding the XSL link to XML.
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="abc.xsl" ?>
Do I need to change anything in my XSL or in Java transformation API

Thanks in advance
Shekar