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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 6831

A way to prevent special entity to be resolved in xslfo

I have the following simple xslt code:

<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$shape">&#9658;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:apply-templates select="self::node()" mode="default"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

My issue is in the "when" branch above, I want to render an arrow in the final pdf, so I specified the special entity there. However, it is already rendered as an arrow in the fo file, so the arrow won't come through in the final pdf.

What I want now is to keep the ► shown as text in the fo too instead of being resolved to an arrow in the fo.

Could any experts help on how to prevent xslt or xsl-fo to resolve special entities?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 232

Answers (1)

mzjn
mzjn

Reputation: 50967

...it is already rendered as an arrow in the fo file, so the arrow won't come through in the final pdf.

This sounds very strange. From an XML point of view, the &#9658; character reference is exactly the same as the ► character. It should not matter which of these representations is used in the FO file.

A more likely cause of the problem is that the arrow glyph is missing in the font used in the PDF file.

Upvotes: 1

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