escaping characters in toc.hhc

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escaping characters in toc.hhc
	2006-02-09 22:56:53
The problem is that the default output encoding for htmlhelp is iso-8859-1 and those characters are not in that encoding.  But you can use windows-1252 for the encoding with Saxon.  See the "Languages and Encoding" section of this reference: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlHelp.html You have to follow the directions and example very carefully for Saxon processing with encoding="windows-1252", but it does work. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobssagehill.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Joy Andree To: docbook-appslists.oasis-open.org Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:30 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] escaping characters in toc.hhc Help,  ; Here is the error I keep getting when a special character is in a title element. Error at xsl:copy-of on line 338 of file:/D:/Tools/XSL/docbook/html/chunker.xsl:   Output character not available in this encoding (decimal 8220) Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported   This in turns breaks the toc.hhc file and the index.  When the CHM is opened the left side toc has only a path the location where the toc broke (even thou other files build they are not displayed in the toc), which is not necessarily the title with the special character.  When I remove the special character everything is fine and when I add it to the escape-attr.   My source xml has the “ and ”.  I tried to modify by creating a customization that changes the dingbat key to quot and changing the saxon.character.representation to native but neither seems to work. ; Other than adding each of these special characters to the escape-attr template is there another way I can get the special characters to convert to the entity instead of the decimal characters?      Thanks in advance, Joy